ISLAMABAD – The Caretaker law and Information Minister, Ali Zafar, said onWednesday a summary for a session of the National Assembly (NA) has beensubmitted.
While speaking to media persons outside the Supreme Court, law ministersaid the National Assembly session is likely to be called between August 12and 14 with the newly elected MNAs to take oath.
The appointment of the Prime Minister, speaker and the deputy speaker ofthe NA will also take place during the session, he added.
According to the law, the new session of the NA is supposed to be calledbefore August 15; however, the session cannot be summoned unless anotification has been issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
The Information Minister said that according to the election body, thedelay in the election results occurred due to the failure of the ResultsTransmission System (RTS), which an inquiry into the matter would prove.
Earlier, on August 2, the ECP had written to the Cabinet Division asking itto constitute a committee for probing the election results softwaremalfunction.
Amid severe criticism, the ECP had blamed the RTS collapse for the unusualdelay in the results on election day.