Ayaz Sadiq, speaker National Assembly accepted that the omission of provision regarding Khatm-e-Nabuwat’ was a mistake which should be resolved.
Previously Minister of Law denied that any mistake or omission have been done, defending the changing of words he said ‘“Only the oath taking form for the candidate has been made simple’
On the other hand many members from opposition protested the change, Sheikh Rasheed was the first to raise concern about the change on the floor of assembly.
Today as the session started Ayaz Sadiq accepted the mistake by calling it a ‘clerical mistake’ and asked representatives of political parties to meet him in the chamber to rectify and resolve the mistake.
The change though was nominal but faced unprecedented opposition from religious political parties and common citizens. It is being said that the decision of accepting the mistake was taken after ruling party faced internal opposition on this matter.