Pak Prez pushes through more constitutional changes

One ordinance changed the wording of the sentence which spoke of the frequency of the NSC meetings, changing it to ‘‘regularly’’ and omitting the words ‘‘within the time frame indicated by him’’ from the earlier ordinance.

After the amendment the clause would be read as ‘‘meetings of the NSC may be regularly convened by the President either in his discretion, or on the advice of the Prime Minister, or when requested by any of its member.’’ Another ordinance permits politicians who held the post of caretaker PM and chief minister to hold office again, whereas, according to the LFO, people who held these offices were barred from holding them a second time.

This clause is likely to help the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League and National Alliance leaders Miraj Khalid and Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Moin Quereshi and Zafarullah Khan Jamali — who is considered the PML-Q candidate for the PM’s post — as they have all served as caretaker PM’s in the past. (PTI)