National
December 11, 2020
ISLAMABAD: As many as 470 seats of the national and provincial assemblies a significant 44 percent of the total will fall vacant if all the lawmakers belonging to the constituent parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) tender their resignations as announced by the 11-party opposition alliance.
The total strength of the national and four provincial assemblies comes to 1,070 legislators. Some six seats – two national and four provincial – are currently vacant, awaiting by-polls, which the Election Commission of Pakistan has postponed on the recommendation of the National Command and Operation Center (NCO) due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The National Assembly comprises 342 members; the Punjab Assembly has 371 members; the Sindh Assembly consists of 168 lawmakers; the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has 124 lawmakers; and the Balochistan Assembly comprises 65 members.
Three members of the Balochistan Assembly have decided to resign in accordance with the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement’s plan against the PTI government. Online/File
QUETTA: Three members of the Balochistan Assembly have decided to resign in accordance with the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement’s plan against the PTI government.
They are former chief minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani, who was elected as an independent candidate in the 2018 polls, Mir Akhtar Hussain Langove of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal, and Sham Lal, a minority MPA of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam.According to sources, Nawab Raisani took the decision to resign after PML-N’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif contacted him from London and sought his support for the PDM.