Islamabad: Senate Chairman Yousuf Raza Gilani issued a production order for PTI Senators – Ejaz Chaudhry and Aun Abbas Bapi on Friday, and asked officials to ensure their presence in the Senate meeting tomorrow (Saturday).
This was not the first production order issued for Chaudhry, which is imprisoned in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. In January, Gilani issued a production order for the PTI Senator, which has been in prison for the past 19 months, so that he can attend the Senate meeting on January 14. However, Chaudhry failed to appear in the Senate meeting. Opposition lawmakers can be seen carrying play cards with pictures of missing senator during the proceedings.
Meanwhile, the Senate was told a day ago that Bopi was arrested in Cholistan for illegal hunting of deer. Immediately after the suspension of the question time. Later, opposition leader Shobeli Faraz in the Senate said that police had arrested Bopi during a raid at his Multan residence. He wondered if an appropriate procedure for arrest was followed and the Senate Secretariat was reported earlier.
According to production orders, Chaudhry was currently in a judicial lockup in Kot Lakhpat Jail while Bopi Bahawalpur was in the custody of the police.
Gilani called on the two senators to attend the Senate meeting in the Senate meeting, the Senate, under the Rule 84 of the Rules of Rules and behavior in 2012, 84.
“The honorable chairman considers the presence of the necessary [Senators Chaudhry and Buppi] During the rest of the current 347th session of the Senate of Pakistan, “read orders.
The recipients of the order, including the Secretary of Interior and Punjab and Islamabad, were instructed to prepare Senator Chaudhry and Bopi in front of the Senate Secretariat’s sergeant Armons, “at the beginning of every session of the aforementioned meeting”, adding that they will be returned after the end of the seating.
Addressing reporters in Karachi early today, the Senate chairman said he had worked “through a book” in his 30 -year political career.
“This is not the first time I have been a member. I’ve been a parliamentarian for 30 years, and I served through the book. If I do anything, it is through the book, “Gilani said in response to the question whether he was angry with the government or not whether he was angry with the government for not following Chaudhry’s first production order.
The chairman said, “If a respected member is in jail, according to the rules, I can issue a production order.” “If a production order is not implemented, it destroys the environment in Parliament,” he added.
He added, “I saw talk shows … where people were saying that a member (Bopi) was picked up.” “I will ask the federal government and the Punjab government to prepare it, it should participate in the parliament. If he does not attend tomorrow, I will issue a production order.
Meanwhile, Bopi’s media team published a statement in its X account, calling the arrest “a wrong issue because of political revenge”.
“Senator Aun Abbas Bapi has been sent to judicial custody and his bail has been rejected,” the media team said in a updated about the law -maker situation.
