Senate to satisfy next week at Opposition's request

Senate will meet on Dec 30 at opposition's request 

Opposition had submitted a replacement request for session after secretariat returned first one

The senators also will discuss NAB, GB polls and electricity and gas crisis

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has summoned a session of the Upper House of Parliament for next week on the request of Opposition lawmakers.

The Opposition says it wants to debate "political vendetta" against it on December 30. The senators also will mention recently held Gilgit Baltistan elections and therefore the ongoing electricity and gas crisis.

Opposition leader within the Senate Raja Zafar-ul-Haq said that they had submitted a replacement request after the Senate Secretariat returned down the primary one.

It was filed by the Opposition amid Deputy Chairman Senate Saleem Mandviwala's tussle with the NAB chairman.

On Sunday, Mandviwalla had threatened that warrants are often issued to summon anyone before the Senate and if National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal doesn't appear before the Senate, warrants for him are going to be issued.

In a news conference , the senator had talked about the list of complaints the Senate has received concerning NAB's maltreatment and therefore the failure of political parties to enhance the NAB’s ordinance once they had an opportunity .

The Senate deputy chairman said that NAB is intervening in everything now, including issues associated with under-invoicing, and import and import cases, which isn't its domain.

"The Senate has received an extended list of complaints from businessmen within the us and Canada, who said that that they had to go away the country because NAB harassed them," he said.

He said that NAB has pervasively entered into Pakistan’s society. “NAB tortures people such a lot that they become helpless to try to to anything.”

“They force these helpless people to enter into a plea bargaining ," said the deputy Senate chairman.