Overview of 42^nd Session of The National Assembly

The 42nd session of the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan met for 13 sittings from May 9 to May 27. The sittings were held on May 9, May 10, May 11, May 12, May 13, May 16, May 17, May 20, May 23, May 24, May 25, May 26 and May 27.

The National Assembly met for 29 hours and 51 minutes with an average time of 2 hours and 17 minutes per sitting. The average delay in starting a sitting was recorded at 50 minutes per sitting.

The 42nd session of the National Assembly began on Monday, May 9 at the start of the working week and the House was called to meet at 4 pm. The first sitting, however, could only begin with a delay of 54 minutes and lasted only 2 hours and 35 minutes before it was adjourned. The next sitting held on Tuesday, May 10 was again called to meet at 4 pm at the end of the working day and started with a delay of 33 minutes and lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes before it was adjourned due to lack of quorum. The sitting held on Wednesday, May 11 was called to meet at 11:30 am, though it started with a delay of 1 hour and 1 minute and lasted for 2 hours and 43 minutes. On Thursday, May 12, the House was called to meet at 11:00 am but started with a delay of 23 minutes and lasted 3 hours and 4 minutes before it was adjourned. The next sitting held on Friday, May 13 was called to meet at 10:30 am but it started with a delay of 46 minutes and lasted only 1 hour before it was adjourned due to lack of quorum. No sitting of the National Assembly was held on Saturday and Sunday. On Monday, May 16, the sitting was called to meet at 4:00 pm but could only start with a delay of 40 minutes and lasted 2 hours and 47 minutes. The next sitting on Tuesday, May 17 was again called to meet at 4:00 pm at the end of the working day but could only start with a delay of 41 minutes. The sitting lasted only 15 minutes as the shortest sitting of 42 nd session by leaving 99.45% agenda items as the maximum left over agenda items during the 42 nd session before it was adjourned due to lack of quorum. No sitting was held on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, May 20, the House was called to meet at 10:30 am but could only start with a delay of 28 minutes. The sitting lasted 1 hour and 58 minutes before it was adjourned. Again, no sitting was held on Saturday and Sunday and the house was called to meet at 4:00 pm on
Monday, May 23 but the sitting started with a delay of 1 hour and 31 minutes. The sitting lasted 2 hours and 33 minutes before it was adjourned. The next sitting was held on Tuesday, May 24 again to meet at 4:00 pm at the end of the working day.

However, it could only start after a delay of 42 minutes. This sitting lasted 4 hours and 14 minutes as the longest sitting of the 42nd session. On Wednesday, May 25, the house was again called to meet at 4:00 pm but started with a delay of 47 minutes and lasted 2 hours and 41 minutes. The next sitting on Thursday, May 26 was called to meet at 11:00 am but started with a delay of 1 hour and 13 minutes. The sitting lasted 3 hours and 53 minutes before it was adjourned. The last sitting of the session was called to meet at 11 am but started with a delay of 1 hour and 11 minutes. The session was prorogued after a sitting of only 36 minutes.