Mandviwala elected Chairman of Senate panel on Finance
ISLAMABAD: Senator Saleem Mandviwala of Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) has been elected as the Chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue.
Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Senators Shibli Faraz and Mohsin Aziz strongly protested the election of Salim Mandviwala as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and boycotted the session. The both PTI senators walked out expressing reservations on the matter.
Senator Shibli Faraz while addressing the Senate session said that no one knew about the establishment of the committees till last night.
Senator Ali Zafar said that the committee which is related to the accountability of the government goes to the opposition.
On the other hand, Senator Sherry Rehman in response said that the impression is being given that there was irregularity in the committees, PTI did not get a committee of by choice, that’s why party senators are saying all this.
Federal Minister for Law Azam Nazir Tarar said that committees are always made by the Senate Secretariat, when PML-N was in the opposition, party asked for the Interior and Law Committee.
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