LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has begun a move to try and save the membership of its provincial legislator Sanaullah Mastikhel, the MPA responsible for moving the ‘anti-media resolution’ in the Punjab Assembly on Friday.
Sources in the party told Daily Times on Wednesday a three-member committee had sent its investigative report regarding the “act” of Sanaullah Mastikhel to party chief Nawaz Sharif.
The sources said the committee had requested Nawaz to review his decision to expel Mastikhel from the part, as he was only one of 18 members who had prepared the resolution against the media in the Punjab Assembly’s Committee Room.
The committee was constituted by Nawaz Sharif to probe the matter of the resolution presented by Mastikhel against the media. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed and Senior Adviser to the CM Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa are members of the aforementioned committee. The sources told Daily Times that the committee had sent its comprehensive report on the issue to the party chief after completing its investigations, and had requested him not to sack Mastikhel “because he was not alone in moving the resolution in the House”.
The report claimed that Mastikhel had been supported by 17 other legislators from different parties including the Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and the MMA, the sources said, adding that the committee had strongly suggested that they did not recommend that Mastikhel be expelled from the party or the Punjab Assembly because such an action was not “justified”.
There have been reports that the resolution had been drawn up a day before it was presented and passed in the House. According to sources, a special meeting was held at the Punjab Assembly’s Committee Room-A at 10am on July 8 with the agenda set on the media coverage of the fake degrees of parliamentarians.
The meeting was attended by PML-N members Chaudhry Waheed, Sanaullah Mastikhel, Amir Saeed Ansar, Rahila Khadim Hussain, Naveed Anjum, Col Shuja and Shams Hyder, PPP members Muhammed Abbas, Nargis Faiz Malik, Amna Buttar and Zulfiqar Gondal, PML-Q dissident group members Sheikh Alauddin, Dr Tahir Ali Javed, Ijaz Shafi and Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, MMA legislator Ali Hyder Noor Niazi and PML-Q members Samina Khawer Hayyat and Seemal Kamran.
Also on Wednesday, while talking in the Punjab Assembly on the resolution, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the government had no plans of imposing curbs on the media, as it was the fourth pillar of the state. Appreciating the “pro-media resolution” passed a day before, he said the resolution would end the “misunderstandings” between the media and the government.
Sources in the party told Daily Times on Wednesday a three-member committee had sent its investigative report regarding the “act” of Sanaullah Mastikhel to party chief Nawaz Sharif.
The sources said the committee had requested Nawaz to review his decision to expel Mastikhel from the part, as he was only one of 18 members who had prepared the resolution against the media in the Punjab Assembly’s Committee Room.
The committee was constituted by Nawaz Sharif to probe the matter of the resolution presented by Mastikhel against the media. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed and Senior Adviser to the CM Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa are members of the aforementioned committee. The sources told Daily Times that the committee had sent its comprehensive report on the issue to the party chief after completing its investigations, and had requested him not to sack Mastikhel “because he was not alone in moving the resolution in the House”.
The report claimed that Mastikhel had been supported by 17 other legislators from different parties including the Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and the MMA, the sources said, adding that the committee had strongly suggested that they did not recommend that Mastikhel be expelled from the party or the Punjab Assembly because such an action was not “justified”.
There have been reports that the resolution had been drawn up a day before it was presented and passed in the House. According to sources, a special meeting was held at the Punjab Assembly’s Committee Room-A at 10am on July 8 with the agenda set on the media coverage of the fake degrees of parliamentarians.
The meeting was attended by PML-N members Chaudhry Waheed, Sanaullah Mastikhel, Amir Saeed Ansar, Rahila Khadim Hussain, Naveed Anjum, Col Shuja and Shams Hyder, PPP members Muhammed Abbas, Nargis Faiz Malik, Amna Buttar and Zulfiqar Gondal, PML-Q dissident group members Sheikh Alauddin, Dr Tahir Ali Javed, Ijaz Shafi and Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, MMA legislator Ali Hyder Noor Niazi and PML-Q members Samina Khawer Hayyat and Seemal Kamran.
Also on Wednesday, while talking in the Punjab Assembly on the resolution, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the government had no plans of imposing curbs on the media, as it was the fourth pillar of the state. Appreciating the “pro-media resolution” passed a day before, he said the resolution would end the “misunderstandings” between the media and the government.
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