Controversy Surrounding Salmaan Taseer's Unannounced Visit To Dubai
On December 9, 2010, in a Punjab Assembly session, soon after the recitation from the holy Quran, MMA parliamentary leader Ali Haider Noor Niazi said on a point of order that the Punjab governor was missing since the last 24 hours and no one knew his whereabouts, so according to the constitution, PA Speaker Rana Iqbal automatically became the governor in his absence under the 18th Amendment. Meanwhile, reports of Salman Taseer's secret foreign visit without handing over the charge to Rana Iqbal triggered a heated debate in the House. It was said that since the governor was in Dubai, Speaker Rana Iqbal Ahmed Khan could not chair the session as a consequence of the constitutional role assigned to him in such a situation.
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