NA committees' meeting resume after two-month break.

ISLAMABAD -- The National Assembly standing committees meetings of different ministries on important matters have been resumed partially after the break of around two months.

The opposition has seemingly convinced the National Assembly Speaker to allow holding at least important standing committees' meetings other than the days of National Assembly session.

The standing committee meetings were suspended around two months ago with the order of Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser. The sudden declaration was issued citing 'austerity measures' to save extra expenditure.

The opposition parties, soon after the decision, strongly criticised the step in and outside the parliament. They argued that the decision would prove irrational, as it had never happened in the parliamentary history in the past.

'The legislative business would suffer if the standing committees not perform their work regularly,' PML-N's parliamentary leader Khwaja Asif had commented at the floor of the house, criticising the decision taken by the Speaker National Assembly to suspend standing committees.

Other main opposition parties had opposed the decision, saying the proper discussions on the bills could not be held by not holding standing committees meetings on the regular basis.

Some of the opposition parties' members had also commented the decision was taken to avoid entry of arrested members to participate in the standing committees. The arrested members of standing...