4 Bills Smoothly Sail Through Senate

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jul, 2025) The senate on Friday unanimously passed four bills including the Extradition (Amendment) Bill, 2025, the Pakistan Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2025, the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and the Federal board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill, 2025 as reported by the concerned Standing Committees.

The bills were moved by Minister of State for Interior Muhammad Tallal Badar and Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training Wajiha Qamar in the Houses.

The House passed all the bills through clause by clause readings. The Statement of objects and Reasons of the Extradition (Amendment ) Bill says that the extradition requests are received from foreign jurisdictions through diplomatic channels. The cases are processed under Extradition Act 1972 and have to forwarded to the Federal Cabinet twice which takes considerable time due to busy schedule of the cabinet official business.

The statement of objects and reasons the Pakistan Citizen (Amendment) bill says that a large number of Pakistani diaspora are complaining that they had to renounce their Pakistani citizenship as a condition for acquiring citizenship of a foreign country for residence or stay.

Whenever such countries are entering into dual nationality arrangements with government of Pakistan, there is no provision within Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 which allows resumption of Pakistan citizenship. The amendment will allow Pakistani diaspora to resume their Pakistani citizenship.

The statement of objects and reasons of the Federal Board (Amendment) bill says that the act has been amended to provide a comprehensive framework for the Board to organize, regulate, conduct and overseas intermediate and secondary education in line with best practices. The proposed amendments aim to facilitate swift and flexible decision making while enabling the Board to establish international collaboration. The composition of Board has also been revised to adopt a more inclusive approach.

Meanwhile, Minister of State for Law and Justice Aqeel Malik laid before the Senate the National Agri-trade and food Safety Authority Ordinance 2025 as required by clause (2) of the Article 89 of the constitution.