Senate to approve 20th Amendment bill today

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the session of the Senate with one-point agenda of passage of the 20th Amendment Bill today.

The landmark 20th Amendment Bill was okayed unanimously by the National Assembly on Tuesday. Once the bill is cleared by the upper house of parliament, it would be sent to the president whose signature on it would make it an Act of Parliament. The Senate session would be prorogued the same day.

The 20th Amendment in the Constitution would envisage validation of by-elections on 28 seats, including nine in National Assembly and three in Senate. The 12 restored parliamentarians would be able to attend joint sitting of parliament scheduled to start on Monday to debate 63 recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security on 'terms of engagements' with the United States.