The National Assembly resumed its session at the Parliament House in Islamabad today.

The House will elect the new Speaker and Deputy Speaker.

Sardar Ayaz Sadiq of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar of Sunni Ittehad Council are vying for the office of the Speaker.

For the Deputy Speaker slot, the contest is between Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians and Junaid Akbar of Sunni Ittehad Council.

At the outset, the House offered fateha for those martyred in recent acts of terrorism in the country and the departed soul of the father of Dr Mahreen Razaq Bhutto.