Islamabad (Staff Report/Agencies): President Dr Arif Alvi will address the joint session of the Parliament on October 3.
The session will formally mark the beginning of the final parliamentary year of the present National Assembly.
According to National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the lawmakers were busy in relief work in the flood-hit areas due to which the session was not called urgently.
Article 226, Clause 3 reads: “[(3) At the commencement of the first session after each general election to the National Assembly and at the commencement of the first session of each year the president shall address both houses assembled together and inform the Majlis-e-Shura (Parliament) of the causes of its summons.]
Meanwhile, under the constitutional obligation, the annual ritual is supposed to be preceded by a joint sitting of the two houses, which is technically still in session and will meet again on October 3.