President Dr. Arif Alvi has summoned a joint session of the Parliament on Thursday at five pm.
The president will address the session summoned under Articles 54-1 and 56-3 of the Constitution.
In his address, the president will give a road map to the government while discussing constitutional and legal issues.
President Alvi will also shed light on the economy, democracy and human rights.
Earlier, National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had postponed the joint session scheduled for September 22 for the third time for another month.
The NA speaker did this despite the president’s address to a joint sitting of parliament being mandatory.
The official notification in this connection read that the speaker had delayed the joint sitting exercising his “powers conferred by proviso to Rule 4 of the Parliament (Joint Sittings) Rules 1973”.
“The speaker shall determine when a joint sitting shall be adjourned sine die or to a particular day, or to an hour of the same day, provided that the speaker may, if he thinks fit, call a joint sitting before the date or time to which it has been adjourned or at any time after the joint sitting has been adjourned sine die,” the rule stated.
