PA passes resolution to abolish 58-2(b)

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution against 58-2(b), which allows the president to dissolve the elected assemblies besides imposing the Governor’s Rule in the provinces.

It has been proposed in the resolution - yet to be recommended to the Federal Government - that the right of dissolving the assemblies should be given to the National Assembly, while the imposition of the Governor’s Rule must be given to the respective Provincial Assemblies, instead of keeping it with a single man ‘President’.