Joint parliament session next week to resolve row on seminaries registration

ISLAMABAD: As the controversy regarding the mad­rassah registration bill refuses to die down, a joint session of parliament will be convened in the upcoming week to possibly take up the Societies Registra­tion (Amend­ment) Bill 2024, which, after its passage by both houses of parliament, was returned by the president with ‘objections’.

Sources in the National Assembly Secretariat told Dawn that the summary had been prepared to call the joint session on Dec 17, and the date had been finalised...