NA speaker issues production orders for Zardari, Saad Rafique

ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly (NA) Asad Qaiser on Wednesday issued the production orders of former president Asif Ali Zardari, ARY News reported.

According to details, the NA speaker has also issued the production orders of PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique.

After the issuance of production orders, both lawmakers would attend the post-budget session.

Few hours before, federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda claimed that NA speaker Asad Qaiser will issue the production orders of Asif Ali Zardari by tomorrow.

Talking exclusively in ARY News program ‘Powerplay’, Vawda said that issue of Asif Ali Zardari’s production orders would be resolved hopefully by tomorrow.

“We are fulfilling the wish of opposition just for the supremacy of democracy but opposition parties are not happy over it,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari demanded of the Speaker National Assembly to issue production orders. of Asif Zardari.

Addressing on the floor of the house, he said Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP co-chairman, remained President of Pakistan and remained in jail for 11 long years, but no charge against him was proven.

Bilawal while urging the NA Speaker to issue production orders for Asif Ali Zardari including four MNAs, said“People of Nawabshah deprived of their right to be represented in budget process”.