President Arif Alvi has summoned a speical session of the National Assembly (NA) on Monday at the Parliment House at 4 pm, according to the a communique from the NA secretariat’s directorate general of media. The session was called under section 1 of Article 54 of the Constitution. This will be the NA’s third and the ninth session of the third parliamentary year, during the incumbent government’s tenure. The session would deal with the contention upon the bill regarding increasing the autonomy of the State Bank of Pakistan. “However, the ordinance doesn’t make the SBP independent, it makes it independent from Pakistan’s law, it makes it independent from the parliamentary and judicial oversight,” he had added.

Source: Pakistan Today March 28, 2021 12:33 UTC