Punjab Assembly take oath.
Apr 9th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan, Top News
LAHORE: The inaugural session of Punjab Assembly is underway with speaker Afzal Sahi in chair.
About 353 parliamentarians including 268 male, 75 female and 10 minority members including one-woman member took oath from the outgoing PA speaker.
Out of the 75 women members, 66 have been elected on reserved seats while nine returned after contesting on general seats.
There are total 372 seats in the Punjab Assembly and the remaining 16 parliamentarians will join later, after the bye-polls. Ten of the empty as candidates who were elected to them were also elected on the National Assembly seats and opted to retain the National Assembly seats. geo
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