President Zardari summons NA, Senate sessions on June 10
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President Asif Ali Zardari summoned a session of the National Assembly on June 10, at 5pm in the Parliament House. “The President has summoned the National Assembly session for tomorrow, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 5 PM in the Parliament House. The President has summoned the session by exercising the powers conferred under Article 54 Clause 1 of the Constitution,” according to the notification. This will be the “28th session of the 16th National Assembly”, added the notification. President Zardari also summoned a session of the Senate at 4pm on June 10, according to a post on social media by the president’s office. A source in the National Assembly Secretariat (NAS) told Dawn that both sessions have been called budget sessions for 2026–27; however, it is expected that the budget will be presented in Parliament on June 12. It has been learnt that the sessions were convened for the budget and to line up members before its presentation. Under Article 63, Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) could be disqualified if they abstain from voting on the budget. Article 63 says: “Disqualification on grounds of defection, etc. (1) If a member of a Parliamentary Party composed of a single political party in a House — (a) resigns from membership of his political party or joins another Parliamentary Party; or (b) votes or abstains from voting in the House contrary to any direction issued by the Parliamentary Party to which he belongs, in relations to — (i) election of the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister; or (ii) a vote of confidence or a vote of no-confidence; or (iii) a Money Bill or a Constitution (Amendment) Bill; he may be declared in writing by the Party Head to have defected from the political party, and the party head may forward a copy of the declaration to the presiding officer and the Chief ElectionCommissioner and shall similarly forward a copy thereof to the member concerned.” Last week, the government announced that the federal budget for the fiscal year 2025