Pakistan, June 29 -- Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan has ordered the suspension of 26 opposition MPAs for 15 sittings of the provincial legislature after their protests disrupted the proceedings, it emerged on Saturday.
According to an order issued by Malik on Friday, the suspended MPAs "became disorderly, beyond all parliamentary reasoning and practices", including tearing the agenda papers and hurling torn pieces towards the treasury benches as well as using "offensive, abusive, and unparliamentary language and slogans".
The speaker concluded that the opposition MPAs had "disregarded [his] authority as speaker [.] consistently and willfully obstructing the business of the assembly".
Separately, the Punjab Assembly sec...