PPP questions authority of 3-member Ministerial Committee.

ISLAMABAD -- The Opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has questioned the authority of three-member Ministerial Committee probing the 2018 Senate elections video scandal to summon sitting Senators asking them about their victory in these polls.

The Parliamentary leader of PPP in the Senate Senator Sherry Rehman in a statement asked that in what capacity, the Ministerial Committee has issued summons to the lawmakers including two belonging to her party.

On February 24, the committee had issued notices of appearance before it to those four sitting Senators who had got elected in the 2018 Senate election from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) despite they lacked the required number of party votes.

These Senators include Mushtaq Ahmed of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Rubina Khalid and Bahramand Khan Tangi of the PPP and Dilawar Khan, an independent. 'The committee has no Constitutional and legal authority to summon members of the Parliament,' said Senator Sherry Rehman. She alleged that the committee was going to give a clean chit to those...