by Naveed Butt | Zulfiqar Ahmad Business Recorder, October 30th, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday introduced ‘The China Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Bill, 2020’ and ‘The Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Bill, 2020’ in National Assembly…..
The statement of objects and reasons of ‘The China Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Bill, 2020’, says: “No Suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the authority, the chairperson, member, executive director operations, executive director research, employees, officers, experts, consultants or advisors of the authority, in respect of anything done or purported to be done in good faith, under the provisions of this Act or the rules and regulations.”
It also says that “the authority would be responsible for planning, facilitating, coordination, monitoring, and evaluating to ensure implementation of all activates related to the CPEC, ensuring inter-provincial and inter-ministerial coordination, organizing and coordinating meetings and joint cooperation committee and joint working groups, conducting sectoral research for informed decisions making and along terms planning; monitoring and evaluation and to ensure implementation beside narrative building and communication of CPEC and other related activities from time to time.”
According to statement of objects and reasons of The Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Bill, 2020, “the bill is aimed at transparent Senate elections without manipulations that have happened in the past and grant full voting rights to the overseas Pakistanis are the long outstanding demands of almost all the political parties including PTI. Federal Cabinet has also constituted a Cabinet Committee to formulate recommendations regarding electoral reforms to ensure transparent, free and fair elections in the country. Based on the recommendations of the committee, the Cabinet approved electoral reforms package consisting of the Constitution (twenty-sixth) Amendment) Bill, 2020 and the Elections (Amendment) Bill, 2020. These bills broadly cover the Senate elections, women and minorities reserved seats, delimitation of constituencies on the basis of enrolled voters instead of population, voting rights to overseas Pakistanis and conditional participation of dual nationals in elections”…..
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