{"id":14183,"date":"2025-07-20T03:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:14:58","slug":"k-p-reserved-seats-mpas-take-oath-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14183","title":{"rendered":"K-P reserved seats MPAs take oath today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Almost one and a half years after the general elections, the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is going to finally stand fully constituted with induction of lawmakers on reserved seats. These lawmakers are going to take their oaths today (Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>A session of the K-P Assembly will start at 9 am in Peshawar in which a total of 25 members of the provincial assembly (MPAs) will take their oath of office. These lawmakers include 21 women and 4 minority members, all belonging to opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>Reserved seats in the K-P \u2014 where Imran Khan&#8217;s PTI is in power \u2014 could not be filled due to a controversy over reserved seats, on which the ruling party laid claim. The PTI, however, lost the legal battle for reserved seats on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) distributed the reserved seats among opposition parties \u2014 the PML-N, the PPP, the JUI-F, the ANP and the PTI-Parliamentarians. According to the ECP&#8217;s final distribution both the PML-N and the JUI-F got seven reserved seats for women.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP got 5 women and 1 minority seat, totaling 10 seats in the assembly. The ANP and the PTI-Parliamentarians each received 2 general and 1 women&#8217;s seat. One women&#8217;s seat was decided between them in a coin toss.<\/p>\n<p>Senate elections for seven general seats, two reserved seats for women and two seats reserved for technocrats\/religious scholars are scheduled to be held at the K-P Assembly on July 21 (tomorrow).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost one and a half years after the general elections, the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is going to finally stand fully constituted with induction of lawmakers on reserved seats. These lawmakers are going to take their oaths today (Sunday). A session of the K-P Assembly will start at 9 am in Peshawar in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}