{"id":34419,"date":"2024-04-26T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34419"},"modified":"2024-04-26T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:45:19","slug":"ecp-accepts-pti-backed-candidates-inclusion-in-sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-accepts-pti-backed-candidates-inclusion-in-sic\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP accepts PTI-backed candidates inclusion in SIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) informed the National Assembly Secretariat about the party&#8217;s position in NA today. In the report, ECP recognized the inclusion of PTI-backed independent candidates in the Sunni\u00a0Ittehad Council (SIC).<\/p>\n<p>ECP officially informed that\u00a0the Sunni\u00a0Ittehad Council (SIC) is the second largest party in\u00a0the National\u00a0Assembly. The report stated that PML-N is\u00a0the largest\u00a0party in NA with 120 members,\u00a0followed\u00a0by\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SIC with 82 members (including 49 from Punjab and 33 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), PPP 71, MQM 21, JUI 11, PML-Q 5, IPP 4 and MWM, PKMAP, BNP, PMAP, BAP PML-Z each have one member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, the Election Commission did not give any reserved seats to the Sunni Ittehad Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/peshawar-high-court-dismisses-sic-plea-of-reserved-seats\/\">Peshawar High Court dismisses SIC plea of reserved seats<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier, the National Assembly Secretariat had sought the latest party position from the electoral body, which has now been notified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a statement, the Secretariat announced that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed independent members of the National Assembly (NA) would be considered independent until the National Assembly Secretariat receives the party affiliation notification from the ECP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) informed the National Assembly Secretariat about the party&#8217;s position in NA today. In the report, ECP recognized the inclusion of PTI-backed independent candidates in the Sunni\u00a0Ittehad Council (SIC). ECP officially informed that\u00a0the Sunni\u00a0Ittehad Council (SIC) is the second largest party in\u00a0the National\u00a0Assembly. The report stated that PML-N is\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[15840,15838,15839],"class_list":["post-34419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-pti-backed-independent-candidates","tag-pti-backed-candidates-inclusion-in-sic","tag-sunni-ittehad-council-sic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419","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=34419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}