{"id":79563,"date":"2024-04-08T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=79563"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:50:01","slug":"pti-to-boycott-senate-chairman-deputys-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/79563\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI to boycott Senate chairman, deputy&#8217;s election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD (National Times) The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to boycott the election of chairman and deputy chairman of Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political and core committee of the PTI says the election of the chairman and deputy chairman of the Senate is unconstitutional. The party has decided to challenge the election in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the core committee sources, the House of Federation was incomplete and the election of the chairman and deputy chairman was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate election without electing the senators from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was also against the constitutional scheme. Sources said the Senate was non-functional in absence of a chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate Secretariat could not take any decision, except administrative ones. The Senate secretary was not authorised to interpret the Constitution by himself under pressure, source said, adding that without the Senate chairman the Upper House was limited to only one department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s for the first time the Senate had become non-functional in a democratic dispensation, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The constitutional scheme was trampled, and action should be taken against those responsible for rendering the upper house non-functional, the PTI demanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (National Times) The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to boycott the election of chairman and deputy chairman of Senate. The political and core committee of the PTI says the election of the chairman and deputy chairman of the Senate is unconstitutional. The party has decided to challenge the election in court. 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