NA speaker issues production order of 10 PTI lawmakers

Meeting also decides to form fact-finding committee about arrests made from Parliament House on Sept 9.

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday issued production order for 10 PTI members of the house to attend its session on Thursday.

In the production order, the speaker that the 10 members, who have been arrested by the police, should be brought to the assembly before the start of its session on Thursday. The members should be handed iver the acting surgeant at arms and after the end of the session these members will be handed over back to the police.

The PTI members were arrested from the Parliament House in connection with the September 8 public gathering of the party in Islamabad. They were accused of violating the new law on peaceful gathering in Islamabad and attacking the police.

PTI chairman Gauhar Ali Khan confirmed that the speaker had issued the production order for all the 10 lawmakers of the party for the session to be held on Thursday.

In another development, the national assembly speaker constituted a four-member fact-finding committee over the incident in which officials of police and intelligence agencies entered parliament house and arrested the 10 lawmakers belonging to the PTI on September 9.

The speaker ordered the committee to conduct the probe on priority basis and submit a report to his office for for further action.

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