National Assembly Approves Special Courts for Overseas Pakistanis’ Property Disputes

On Friday, the National Assembly passed two bills, reviewing and approving them clause by clause.

The bills included the Deposit Protection Corporation (Amendment) Bill 2024, which seeks to amend the Deposit Protection Corporation Act 2016, and the Establishment of Special Court (Overseas Pakistanis Property) Bill 2024, which aims to establish special courts for the adjudication of petitions regarding the immovable properties of overseas Pakistanis.

Both the bills had already been passed by the Senate. The House also witnessed the introduction of three bills including

1. A bill to amend the National Commission on the Status of Women Act 2012 (The National Commission on the Status of Women (Amendment) Bill, 2024).
2. A bill to establish the Pakistan Infrastructure Development and Assets Management Authority (The Pakistan Infrastructure Development and Assets Management Authority Bill, 2024).
3. a bill to give effect to the convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction 1972 (The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (Implementation) Bill 2024).

The bills were referred to the concerns committee for further deliberation and consideration.

Chaudhary Mahmood Bashir Virk also presented the report of the Standing Committee on the Bill further to amend the Legal Aid and Justice Authority Act 2020 (The Legal Aid and Justice Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2024).

Minister for Housing and Works Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada also laid before the National Assembly the report of the observance and implementation of principles of policy about the affairs of the federation for the years 2020-21, as required by clause (3) of Article 29 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.