{"id":80933,"date":"2025-07-20T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80933"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:07:18","slug":"kp-assembly-oathtaking-ceremony-postponed-until-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kp-assembly-oathtaking-ceremony-postponed-until-july-24\/","title":{"rendered":"KP assembly oathtaking ceremony postponed until July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly session, to be held on Sunday (today), is adjourned until July 24, 2025, as it lacked a quorum, with the oath-taking of members<\/a>, who won reserved seats for minorities and women, put on hold.<\/p>\n

According to details, Speaker Babar Saleem Swati postponed the session after verifying inadequate attendance. Opposition leader Ibadullah was frustrated by the delay and blamed the PTI-led ruling party<\/a> of willfully hindering the process.<\/p>\n

Ibadullah condemned the government, saying, “Political juveniles have been running KP for 12 years,” and blamed them for convening sessions at odd timings, such as midnight, for unconstitutionality.<\/p>\n

He reiterated that the oath-taking, albeit delayed, was unavoidable, saying, “If it doesn’t happen now, it will happen later.<\/p>\n

Ibadullah pointed to the lack of KP’s representation in the Senate over the last one and a half years, attributing this to the leadership of the provincial government, whom he labeled as “politically immature.” He underlined that nobody could prevent the oath-taking on reserved seats and the government was responsible for providing a quorum.<\/p>\n

Related: PTI Rift Over Senate Tickets Deepens as Barrister Saif Threatens to Resign<\/p>\n

In connection with the Senate elections on July 21, he said a pre-negotiated formula between the opposition and the government would regulate the process, despite KP’s dismal performance in Senate polls.<\/p>\n

While commenting on intra-PTI dynamics, Dr. Ibadullah said, “PTI is a strange party; everyone makes different statements. Who is the leader, and whose word should we follow?<\/p>\n

He further said that negotiations for Senate elections were held with party leaders, not individual nominees, and an unopposed election will be a good result. The opposition will go to the Chief Justice to have the oath-taking process done.<\/p>\n

Previously, all the candidates in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senate elections had been elected unopposed after a consensus between the provincial government and opposition<\/p>\n

As per reports, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) settled its internal differences regarding coverage of candidates, and all protesting PTI candidates withdrew their nomination papers.<\/p>\n

The results of the polls will follow a pre-decided formula to assign six Senate seats to PTI and five to the opposition. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) will each get two seats, while the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will get one seat.<\/p>\n

The development follows deep fissures in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regarding the contentious allocation of Senate election tickets, with organizers of the party threatening protests if their demands are not fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly session, to be held on Sunday (today), is adjourned until July 24, 2025, as it lacked a quorum, with the oath-taking of members, who won reserved seats for minorities and women, put on hold. According to details, Speaker Babar Saleem Swati postponed the session after verifying inadequate attendance. Opposition leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30234,194],"class_list":["post-80933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-kp-assembly-oath-taking","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80934,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933\/revisions\/80934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}