{"id":29435,"date":"2017-11-07T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29435"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:56:58","slug":"na-speaker-chairs-meeting-of-parliamentary-parties-over-delimitation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29435","title":{"rendered":"NA speaker chairs meeting of parliamentary parties over delimitation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 07 (TNS):<\/strong> National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq is chairing a session of parliamentary parties over the issue of delimitation of constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that representatives of all political parties in the Parliament are in attendance to chalk out a strategy over the issue of delimitation of constituencies in line with the latest census ahead of next year&#8217;s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Statistics Division are briefing the elected lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the parties had agreed on keeping the total number of NA seats the same and changing the quota of the provinces in light with the provisional census results.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the time came to pass the appropriate legislation in the NA, the main opposition parties, PPP, PTI and MQM, backed out.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the government lawmakers also seemed uninterested as many did not attend the NA proceedings on Thursday and Friday. The government on Monday (Nov 6) prorogued the NA session \u2014 a decision which NA Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah criticised in a media talk today.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP has said it needs Parliament to pass necessary legislation in line with the latest census if next year&#8217;s elections are to be held on time.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the PPP says it wants to see elections held on time whereas the PTI has called for early elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 07 (TNS): National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq is chairing a session of parliamentary parties over the issue of delimitation of constituencies. Sources said that representatives of all political parties in the Parliament are in attendance to chalk out a strategy over the issue of delimitation of constituencies in line with the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-29435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29437,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435\/revisions\/29437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}