{"id":27620,"date":"2024-02-29T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=27620"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T08:50:42","slug":"mpas-elects-babar-saleem-swati-as-speaker-kp-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/mpas-elects-babar-saleem-swati-as-speaker-kp-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"MPAs elects Babar Saleem Swati as Speaker KP Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunni Ittehad Council candidate backed by PTI Babar Saleem Swati was elected as Speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in a session presided over by the outgoing Speaker Mushtaq Ghani on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>PTI-backed candidate Babar Saleem Swati, who emerged victorious from the KP-37 Mansehra seat, secured 89 votes while PPP\u2019s Ehsanullah Miankhel secured 17 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing speaker Mushtaq Ghani administered the oath of Babar Swati.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, voting for the deputy speaker of the KP assembly is underway. PTI woman candidate Surayya Bibi from chitral is contesting for the deputy speaker office against PTI-P member Arbab Waseem.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/mnas-take-oath-in-ruckus-hit-maiden-national-assembly-session.html\">MNAs take oath in ruckus-hit maiden National Assembly Session<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, newly elected members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly were sworn in during an inaugural session marred by extreme disorder and ruckus in the house.<\/p>\n<p>During the swearing-in ceremony, which started almost two hours late, 115 newly elected members of the provincial assembly took oath.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_69 vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_76 wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_79 td-pb-border-top single-content td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunni Ittehad Council candidate backed by PTI Babar Saleem Swati was elected as Speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in a session presided over by the outgoing Speaker Mushtaq Ghani on Thursday. PTI-backed candidate Babar Saleem Swati, who emerged victorious from the KP-37 Mansehra seat, secured 89 votes while PPP\u2019s Ehsanullah Miankhel secured 17 votes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":27633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11511,9,21,2,147],"tags":[8109,12651,12652],"class_list":["post-27620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2024","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-kp-assembly","tag-babar-saleem-swati","tag-kp-assembly-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}