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ISLAMABAD:
The government has swung into action to limit the parliamentary fallout of PTI senators’ mass resignations from the Senate Standing Committee, activating a contingency plan to keep legislative oversight going, it emerged on Friday.
The government also decided not to reopen negotiations with the opposition lawmakers, who stepped aside earlier this year.
The resignations, carried out on the instructions of PTI founder Imran Khan, who remains in jail, had left several committees without members and without chairmen. PTI senators are all leaving their respective standing committees in protest against the former prime minister’s detention and the “dissolution of democratic norms” following the disqualification of PTI lawmakers.
Against this background, the government has started to implement ‘Plan B’, which involves a number of procedural measures to ensure that committee work continues despite the PTI members’ absence.
