The newly elected members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan assemblies will be sworn in on Wednesday, Feb 28. The governors of both provinces have requisitioned assembly sessions for this purpose.
The KP Governor Ghulam Ali has summoned the session following advice from the KP caretaker chief minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah. The provincial law department had requested Mr Shah to advise the governor to convene the provincial assembly meeting. The governor signed the summary and summoned the KP Assembly meeting on Feb 28, 2024.
The KP Assembly last convened on Jan 9, 2023, and was dissolved on Jan 18, 2023. The candidates set to be sworn in include 87 PTI-backed independent candidates, seven members from JUI-F, six from PML-N, four from PPP, and others.
In Balochistan, Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar has summoned the provincial assembly session on Feb 28 at 3pm. The MPAs-select will take the oath in the first session after the recent elections. Balochistan Assembly Speaker Mir Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali will preside over the session.