While Alvi performs Hajj, Sanjrani serves as interim president.
The NA has passed a bill, and the acting president is expected to sign it into law soon. five-year bans instead of lifelong bans
After President Dr. Arif Alvi left for Saudi Arabia to conduct Hajj on Sunday, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani took over as acting President in ISLAMABAD.
The Senate Chairman became acting President in Quetta, per a communication from the Cabinet Division.
The National Assembly has enacted the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2023, which reduces the term of lifelong disqualification for any lawmaker under Article 62(1)(f) to five years.
Election dates in Pakistan can now be announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) without first consulting the president, thanks to a new measure passed by the National Assembly (NA).
After being permanently disqualified from politics by the Supreme Court in 2018, this law allows former premier and PML-N supreme Nawaz Sharif to return to the country and run for office.
Former PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen is also permitted by the law to run for office again. A similar procedure had resulted in the disqualification of sugar tycoon and current leader of his own Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), Tareen.
Acting President Sanjrani, who is part of the ruling PDM alliance, is likely to sign the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2023 into law now that PTI-allied Alvi is out of the country.
Important decisions, such as when to dissolve assemblies, establish a caretaker government, and announce the date of the 2018 general elections, are also expected as key coalition government leaders intend to meet Nawaz in Dubai to discuss a political strategy.
After spending 2019 receiving medical care in London, the three-time former prime minister has made a historic return to politics by flying to Dubai.
Maryam Nawaz, chief organiser for her father’s PML-N party, has also left Pakistan and travelled to visit him.
At first, it was reported that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and foreign minister, would be joining the Sharifs in Dubai on Saturday night.
The location of the high-level conference was reportedly picked with the intention of keeping it out of the public eye.
Nawaz has seldom left London since he went into self-imposed exile. He’s been to Europe once before, and he and Maryam just got back from a trip to Saudi Arabia.
Some reports claim the dissolution of the assemblies and the final date for the elections in the country will be decided at the meeting between the PML-N and the PPP’s top leaders, making the meeting vital and crucial.
