House may reverberate with by-poll 'fiasco'.

LAHORE -- The Punjab Assembly speaker has convened a session of the house on Tuesday (today) on a requisition of the opposition.

The requisition was submitted by PML-N Chief Whip Khalil Tahir Sandhu demanding a discussion on price hike, Daska by-election and law and order in the province.

It will be 29thsession of the 17thHouse as gazette notification for it has been issued by the assembly secretariat.

The opposition plans to raise the issue of the mysterious disappearance of 20 presiding officers of the Election Commission for over six hours in the Daska by-polls and killing of two workers in the election-related violence there.

The session, to be chaired by Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, will begin at 2pm.

The speaker has also issued production orders for Hamza Shahbaz, the opposition leader, who is in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) facing investigation in money laundering and other cases.

The agenda issued for...

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