ISLAMABAD: Opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly’s standing committee on law and justice have opposed the government’s plan to get the National Reconciliation Ordinance passed by parliament through a majority vote.

A meeting of the committee, which met here on Thursday with Begum Nasim Chaudhry in the chair, discussed the NRO.

The committee comprises Justice (retd) Fakhrunnisa Khokhar, Tariq Shabbir, Mrs Shakila Khanum Rashid, Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor, Muhammad Ijaz Virk, S. Zafar Ali Shah, Saeed Ahmad Zafar and Syed Naveed Qamar (PPP), Zahid Hamid, Justice (retd) Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema, Anusha Rehman and Saira Afzal Tararr (PML-N), Riaz Fatyana, Amir Muqam and Raza Hayat Hiraj (PML-Q) and S.A. Iqbal Qadri (MQM).

Minister of State Afzal Sindhu attended the meeting as ex-officio member.

Talking to Dawn, Amir Muqam said that his party and the PML-N had made it clear at the meeting that they would resist any attempt to bulldoze the bill.

He said he had asked the government to provide names of politicians with their party affiliation and non-political persons who had benefited from the NRO before seeking its approval from parliament.

S.A. Iqbal Qadri also expressed reservations on the passage of NRO in its present shape.