[GEO.TV] Despite arduous efforts, the six-party alliance is seemingly falling short of securing a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly with 207 seats, The News reported on Sunday.
The political landscape in Pakistain faced a rather unusual uncertainty after none of the parties, including the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP), the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) affiliated candidates managed to secure a simple majority in the National Assembly in the February 8 polls.
With their 79 and 54 NA seats respectively, the PML-N and the PPP agreed to join hands to form a coalition government along with other political parties including Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
-Pakistain (MQM-P), Istehkam-e-Pakistain Party (IPP), Pakistain Moslem League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Awami Party (BAP) for a coalition government.
In the 336-member National Assembly (NA), 169 votes are the magic number for the formation of a government, and around 224 are needed for a two-thirds majority.
The PML-N has emerged as the largest parliamentary party with 108 members after adding 20 reserved seats for women and four for minorities. The party got elected 75 members for the NA and after nine independents joined it, the tally reached 84. With the allocation of 20 reserved seats for women and four for minorities, its total strength has reached 108 members in the house.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
the PPP has 54 elected members and after the addition of 12 reserved seats for women and two for minorities, its total strength in the National Assembly has reached 68 members.
The total number of PML-N and PPP MNAs makes the magic number 169, needed for the formation of a government as members of both parties have a total strength of 168 members.
The MQM-P has 17 MNA's with the addition of four reserved seats for women and one for minorities, its total strength becomes 22 members in the NA. Whereas the PML-Q got elected three members and with one independent joining it, and the addition of one reserved seat for women, its strength in the NA has reached five.
Out of 99 independent candidates, who made it to the lower house of the parliament, 81 PTI-backed candidates have joined the Sunni Ittehad Council
...an Islamist(aren't they all in Pakistain?) political party which claims to represent the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. Member parties of the Sunni Ittehad Council includes the Aalmi Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat of Pir Afzal Qadri (of Gujrat) and Jamiat Ulema e Pakistan - Sawad e Azam of Sayyid Mahfooz Shah Sahib Mashadi...
(SIC), while eight independent candidates opted not to join any party and got the status of independents in the NA.
The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
Fazl (JUI-F) has six members and was allotted two reserved seats for women, making its total strength eight. Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
the IPP has three MNA members in the assembly.
Other parties including Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistain (MWM), BAP, Balochistan National Party (BNP), National Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and Pakistain Moslem League-Zia have one seat each in the lower house.
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