ECP implements top court\u2019s order
\nTop electoral body notifies restoration of reserved seats following Supreme Court\u2019s June 27 verdict
\n islamabad
\nThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday issued a notification regarding the reserved seats following the June 27 verdict given by the Supreme Court\u2019s Constitutional Bench.
\nThe top court\u2019s Constitutional Bench accepted review petitions and ruled that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is not entitled to seats reserved for women and minorities in the national and provincial assemblies \u2014 providing a lion\u2019s share of the reserved seats to the ruling coalition.
\nFollowing the notification, five reserved seats for women in the National Assembly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were restored by the top electoral body.
\nTwo seats each were allotted to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and one to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).
\nEleven reserved seats for women in the National Assembly from Punjab were also restored. 10 seats have been allotted to the ruling PML-N and one to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
\nThe commission restored three seats reserved for minorities in the lower house which were handed over to the PML-N, PPP, and JUI-F.
\nKP Assembly
\nAs per the notification, 21 reserved seats for women were reinstated in the KP Assembly of which 8 were allocated to JUI-F, six to PML-N, and 5 to PPP. One seat each was also allotted to the PTI Parliamentarians and the Awami National Party (ANP).
\nMeanwhile, four reserved seats for minorities in the KP Assembly were restored of which two were handed over to the JUI-F, one each to the PML-N and PPP.
\nPunjab Assembly
\nThe ECP restored 24 reserved seats for women in the Punjab Assembly of which the PML-N got 21 one each by PPP, Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
\nThree minority seats were restored and two of them were allotted to the PML-N and one to the PPP.
\nSindh Assembly
\nTwo reserved seats for women and one for minorities have been reinstated in the Sindh Assembly of which one was allotted to the PPP and another to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P). Furthermore, the ECP also withdrew its notification stating the successful candidates\u2019 affiliation with the Imran Khan-founded party from the general seats in the national and provincial assemblies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ECP implements top court\u2019s order Top electoral body notifies restoration of reserved seats following Supreme Court\u2019s June 27 verdict islamabad The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday issued a notification regarding the reserved seats following the June 27 verdict given by the Supreme Court\u2019s Constitutional Bench. The top court\u2019s Constitutional Bench accepted review petitions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n