President Asif Ali Zardari summoned a session of the National Assembly on June 10, at 5pm in the Parliament House.
“The President has summoned the National Assembly session for tomorrow, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 5 PM in the Parliament House. The President has summoned the session by exercising the powers conferred under Article 54 Clause 1 of the Constitution,” according to the notification.
This will be the “28th session of the 16th National Assembly”, added the notification.
President Zardari also summoned a session of the Senate at 4pm on June 10, according to a post on social media by the president’s office.
A source in the National Assembly Secretariat told Dawn that both sessions have been called budget sessions for 2026–27; however, it is expected that the budget will be presented in Parliament on June 12.
It has been learnt that the sessions were convened for the budget and to line up members before its presentation.
Under Article 63, Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) could be disqualified if they abstain from voting on the budget.
Article 63 says: “Disqualification on grounds of defection, etc. (1) If a member of a Parliamentary Party composed of a single political party in a House — (a) resigns from membership of his political party or joins another Parliamentary Party; or (b) votes or abstains from voting in the House contrary to any direction issued by the Parliamentary Party to which he belongs, in relations to — (i) election of the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister; or (ii) a vote of confidence or a vote of no-confidence; or (iii) a Money Bill or a Constitution (Amendment) Bill; he may be declared in writing by the Party Head to have defected from the political party, and the party head may forward a copy of the declaration to the presiding officer and the Chief Election Commissioner and shall similarly forward a copy thereof to the member concerned.”
Last week, the government announced that the federal budget for the fiscal year 2025-26 will be presented on June 10.
However, it is pertinent to note that the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) has yet to take place, and the government has also not released the Economic Survey.
Earlier today, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said that the budget for the next fiscal year (FY2026-27) would likely be presented in the parliament on June 12 (Friday).
Chaudhry, however, stated further that summaries to convene budget sessions in the National Assembly and Senate on June 10 (Wednesday) had been sent to the presidency for approval.
Before Chaudhry’s statement, uncertainty had surrounded the date for the budget’s presentation as the federal government, its coalition partners and provincial governments struggled to reach a consensus over the Centre’s demand for more than Rs1 trillion for strategic needs.
The meeting of the NEC was postponed for the third time on Monday at the last moment amid continuing negotiations over the freezing of provincial shares in the federal divisible pool under the NFC Award.
The PML-N-led government and its major ally, the PPP, on Monday reached a consensus on the broad framework of the federal budget.
The two sides met for a third round of talks at Aiwan-i-Sadr, with President Zardari in the chair and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leading the PML-N team.
Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal said the government had reached a “complete understanding” with the PPP on the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and the development budget.
He added that top-level political consultations and delegation-level talks would continue to address the remaining budgetary demands.
