Won't take 'unimportant' standing committees, opposition tells govt

 

ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties have refused to take the chairmanship of relatively unimportant standing committees and have demanded interior, foreign affairs, and finance from the treasury benches, sources informed Geo News.

The government and opposition reached a formula for the chairmanship of the standing committees according to the seat share, under which the treasury benches would get 20 while the opposition will get the chairmanship of 19.

The opposition has reached consensus over not taking the chairmanship of Statistics, Climate Change, Science and Technology. Former Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah has refused to take the chairmanship of any committee, said sources.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to not give chairmanship to any of there lawmaker who has previously been at the post in the previous tenure.

The government, in an attempt to break the deadlock with the PML-N, conceded the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee to the party president Shehbaz Sharif.