Senate and its purpose

 

The Senate of Pakistan

Senate of Pakistan is also known as the upper house of Pakistan. The elections for senate are conducted after a time interval of three years for one half of the senate and each senator is allocated a time period of six years. If in any scenario there is no president in Pakistan or he is unable to perform his duties then chairmen of the senate perform the duties of a president unless and until there comes a new president or old one recovers himself.

What is the purpose and role of senate?

The primary reason for having senate is to give equivalent status to the entire associate entities since the linkage of the national assembly was supported on the population of each province.

Alike association of provincial in the senate, hence stable the provincial disparity in the National assembly.

The total senatorial seats are 104, having 18 seats for women. According to the constitution of Pakistan there is requirement of having at least 17 women senators. Senate members are elected according to the Article 59, presented in the constitution of Pakistan.

President & the Parliament

Under the constitution, Article 50, the parliament of Pakistan has a president and two houses known as the national assembly and the senate Assembly respectively. The members of both houses elect the president. In some cases president may be indict through some resolutions, which is accepted by the 2/3rd of the total members in a joint venture of the two houses who are summoned for this purpose. The constitution of Pakistan gives power to the president by allowing him to disqualify the national assembly under his prudence if in some scenario the government is unable to work under the requirements stated in constitution. For dissolution f national assembly it is necessary to plea the electorate.

In case of dissolution, the President is required to pass on the matter to the Supreme Court and then the Supreme Court shall decide the situation within thirty days and the judgment made by the Supreme Court will be considered final.

In case of absence of the president, no matter what the situation whether the president is not elected or he is unable to perform his duties, it is the duty of the senate chairman to hold his responsibilities till the new president is elected or he is able to perform his functions.

The Relationship between the Houses

If both the houses passes the bill and it is entertain by the president’s acquiesce it cannot become a law unless it is the case of a money bill which is the only right of the National assembly. Through revision, the role of a negotiation team, composed of eight members of each House, has been initiated to progress consent on Bills, in case there is a deviation between the two houses.

Cabinet

The constitution of Pakistan offers that there shall be a Cabinet which should be headed by the PM and that is jointly liable to the National assembly. The PM is elected from the members of the National assembly. The ministers of the state and the federal ministers are chosen from the members of the parliament. Those federal and ministers of the state who are also the member of the senate must not exceed one fourth of the numbers of federal ministers.