News @ 3 - 25th May 2018

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday approved the Constitution Amendment Bill, 2018 with majority for the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Seventy-one members of the upper house of Parliament voted in favour of the bill while five against it during a session presided over by Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani. Five senators who opposed the bill belonged to Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP).

Law Minister Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk moved the bill in the house. The constitution amendment bill has already been passed by the National Assembly with a two-third majority.

It will now be tabled in the provincial assembly of KP for approval before it is sent to the President for presidential endorsement.