Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Irfan Siddiqui has confirmed that the government’s late-night hustling and manoeuvring to get JUI-F president Fazal ur Rehman onboard to pass the constitutional amendments have failed, and the amendments have been postponed indefinitely.
Siddiqui, while talking to Geo News, revealed that the government might take a week or ten days to pass the amendments.
It should be noted that the draft constitutional amendments were to be presented in yesterday’s parliament session, but the government failed to get the magic number to pass the legislation, so the sessions were adjourned for today.
While today’s sessions of both houses of parliament will be postponed indefinitely, Siddiqui said, “Our numbers are complete, and not being able to pass the amendments is certainly not a failure.”
“I do not see any big difference in it, and even if the amendments do not take place, it won’t be a doomsday,” said the senior senator.
He also said that the problem isn’t with the number of votes but some difference of opinion on some points in the proposed amendments, “which is the right of each political party.”
Irfan Siddiqui confirmed that Fazal ur Rehman has asked for some time to study the details of the draft.
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