Peshawar:
Almost one and a half years after the parliamentary election, the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) will finally stand fully composed with the induction of legislators on reserved seats. These legislators will take their oaths today (Sunday).
A session with the KP assembly starts at. 9 in Peshawar, where a total of 25 members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAS) will take their oaths in office. These legislators include 21 women and 4 minority members who all belong to opposition parties.
Reserved seats in KP – where Imran Khan’s PTI is in power – could not be filled because of a controversy over reserved seats, as the reigning party claimed. However, PTI lost the legal battle for reserved seats on June 28.
Later, the Election Commission in Pakistan (ECP) distributed the reserved seats among opposition parties-PML-N, PPP, JUI-F, ANP and PTI parliamentarians. According to the ECP’s final distribution, both PML-N and JUI-F got seven reserved seats for women.
PPP got 5 women and 1 minority seat, a total of 10 seats in the assembly. AP and PTI parliamentarians each received 2 general and 1 women’s seat. A women’s seat was decided between them in a coin toss.
Senate elections for seven general seats, two reserved seats for women and two seats reserved for technocrats/religious scholars must be held at the KP Assembly on July 21 (tomorrow).
