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Islamabad, Aug. 13 (TNS):\u00a0Besides inaugural session of National Assembly, the sessions of new Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Balochistan assemblies held on Monday, where MPA-elects took oath of their offices.<\/p>\n
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MPA-elect Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha administered oath to elected members of the assembly amidst tight security arrangements by the police.<\/p>\n
Later, the members of the assembly signed the register roll.<\/p>\n
The PTI emerged as the single largest political party with 64 members who also took oath besides members of the opposition, minorities and women MPAs elected on reserved seats.<\/p>\n
A total of 112 newly elected MPAs took oath in the KP Assembly.<\/p>\n
During the session, Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s Nighat Orakzai raised a point of order to express grief over the death of PTI candidate Ikramullah Gandapur.<\/p>\n
A special information counter for the newly elected MPAs was set up where they were given necessary information by the assembly staff.<\/p>\n
A joint meeting of the opposition took place after the oath-taking during which names were agreed on for the slots of chief minister, opposition leader, speaker and deputy speaker.<\/p>\n
Nomination papers for office of the speaker and deputy speaker of KP Assembly would be submitted by treasury and opposition benches today.<\/p>\n
In Sindh, the newly elected MPAs were administered oath by Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani, following which they signed the register roll in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n
The oath-taking took place in three languages in the Sindh Assembly: Urdu, Sindhi and English.<\/p>\n
A total of 164 out of 168 were sworn in, with one member, Pir Fazal Shah, taking oath from a National Assembly seat.<\/p>\n
Notifications were not issued for the other two, Zulfiqar Ali Shah and Tharparkar\u2019s Razzaq Rahemo. PS-87 was vacant as polling on the seat was postponed following death of TLP\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n
Following the oath-taking, a joint meeting of the opposition in Sindh Assembly took place during which discussion took place over the names for prospective chief minister and speaker.<\/p>\n
The opposition announced to support candidate from Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan for the speaker post, and a candidate from PTI for the opposition leader.<\/p>\n
In Balochistan Assembly, 59 MPAs were administered oath by Speaker Rahila Hamid Khan Durrani.<\/p>\n
As in other provinces, the Balochistan Assembly session took place amid high security.<\/p>\n
The Punjab Assembly session has been summoned on Wednesday, August 15 at 10am.<\/p>\n
Earlier today, newly-elected MNAs took oath in the inaugural session of the 15th National Assembly.<\/p>\n
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