Islamabad:
Head of opposition Omar Ayub Khan formally wrote a letter to the speaker of the National Assembly on Tuesday and expressed concern about what he described as increasing censorship of parliamentary speeches and an alleged violation of constitutional and procedural norms.
In the letter on three sides, the Na-Reconciliation leader navered the NA speaker Ayaz Sadiq of his constitutional role as a manager-not master-in-house. The letter emphasized repeated cases where the opposition members’ speeches were either censored or cut and changed when official recordings were requested what concerned about transparency and justice.
“Since its commencement of the current assembly in 2024, opposition members have faced rising censorship not only through limited media coverage, but also through editing and significant change of our registered speeches,” he wrote. “When I and other members requested access to official recordings of our speeches, we found them significantly cut and manipulated.”
“I must also remind you that the speaker under the law and tradition is custody, not the master of the house,” said Ayub, “the custody of this August institution cannot arbitrarily suppress or distort the voice of people’s representatives.”
The opposition leader emphasized that members of the National Assembly are constitutionally entitled to express their views freely.
