ISLAMABAD, 13 December 2021, (TON): The Parliament House will remain closed from Dec 13 to Dec 20 in connection with a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) being held on Dec 18 and 19.

The meeting of foreign ministers from the OIC is being held in Pakistan after 41 years and in this regard, all activities at the Parliament House have been suspended.

The session of parliament that was supposed to take up the mini-budget has been postponed as well.

According to the official tweet “President Arif Alvi has convened the session of the National Assembly on December 22 at 4pm instead of December 13,

The session is convened under the Article 54 (1) of the Constitution.

The government was all set to present its mini-budget, involving fiscal adjustments and expenditure cuts worth about Rs600 billion as part of an understanding with the IMF, in the lower house of parliament on Monday (today).

In addition, the employees of the National Assembly Secretariat have been sent on leave for an entire week except for the ones who have been assigned duties for the session.