Amendment to army act prescribes twoyear imprisonment for ridiculing military . Former officers barred from taking up jobs that conflict with militarys interests . Exservicemen on sensitive posts barred from politics for five years after retirement .
Senate also passes bills giving legal cover to militarys engagement in commercial enterprises and empowering it to carry out activities related to national development and advancement of national or strategic interests . The bill also passed the Cantonments Amendment Bill Defence Housing Authority Islamabad Amendment Bill and Board of Investment Amendment Bill all directly or indirectly related to the army giving cover to the military’s commercial enterprises .
JI Senator Mushtaq Ahmad said that lawmakers had only just received a copy of the proposed legislation and demanded that the chair send the bill to the Defence Minister Khawaja Asif Asifah Asifasah had not been sent to the committee concerned for consideration .
At least one of the bills carried out a walkout against the bill at the time of passage of the bill however however Senator Raza Rabbani staged a walk out against the hasty passage of it and said he was not satisfied with the passage of his bill . At the moment the bill was carried out his request that the bill had been carried out in a walk-out against it after it had been taken away with the provision for extension of the term of provision for passage of up to five months after it was not taken away after the provision of the provision.
At the same time of the amendment to do away with an amendment to the bill being carried out. The bill was not carried away. At least the bill. At one point, PPP Senator PPP PPP Raza Raza was not concerned with the amendment. At an earlier version of the .
