ISLAMABAD, May 12 (APP):The Senate on Tuesday passed the Carriage by Air (Amendment) Bill, 2026 with a majority vote, while the National Fund for Culture Heritage (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was referred to the relevant standing committee for further deliberation. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, on behalf of Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, moved the bill seeking amendments to the Carriage by Air Act, 2012, in the House. …
Senate passes Carriage by Air (Amendment) Bill, 2026
ISLAMABAD, May 12 (APP):The Senate on Tuesday passed the Carriage by Air (Amendment) Bill, 2026 with a majority vote, while the National Fund for Culture Heritage (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was referred to the relevant standing committee for further deliberation.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, on behalf of Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, moved the bill seeking amendments to the Carriage by Air Act, 2012, in the House. On demand of the opposition members, the presiding officer put the bill to a vote, with 25 members voting in favour and nine opposing it. The house passed the bill through clause by clause reading.
Minister for National Heritage and Culture, Aurangzeb Khan Khichi also moved the National Fund for Culture Heritage (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the House.
The minister requested the House to pass the bill, saying it only involved a minor amendment replacing the words “Federal Government” with “concerned division,” as approved by the National Assembly standing committee.
However, the parliamentary leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Syed Ali Zafar requested the chair to refer the bill to the relevant standing committee for discussion. The chair subsequently referred the bill to the concerned standing committee.
Meanwhile, Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, on behalf of Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, laid before the Senate the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (Conversion) (Repeal) Ordinance, 2026 (Ordinance No. III of 2026), as required under Article 89(2) of the Constitution.
As the ordinance was first laid before the Senate, the chair referred it to the relevant committee for deliberation as a bill.
