Following the Supreme Court verdict declaring the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) eligible for the reserved seats, it is poised to become the majority political party in parliament.
Sources say that the number of PTI lawmakers in the National Assembly is likely to be 92, as there are 84 members of the Sunni Alliance and eight independent.
After the PTI gets the 22 reserved seats it lost earlier, its strength in the Lower House is likely to swell up to 114 members.
On the other hand, there are 108 members of the PML-N in the National Assembly, PPP has 68, MQM 21, JUI-F eight, PML-Q five and IPP four members.
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After the Supreme Court's decision regarding the allotment of reserved seats, the PML-N, PPP, MQM, and JUI have been stripped of 77 additional seats reserved for women and minorities.
On SC orders, the election commission had suspended 77 reserved seats belonging to the Sunni Ittehad Council on May 13. The disputed seats include 22 seats of the National Assembly and 55 in provincial assemblies.
In the National Assembly, the disputed seats for women include 11 from Punjab, and eight seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Moreover, three reserved seats for minorities are also included in the suspended seats. Out of the 22 contentious seats in the National Assembly, 14 were allocated to the PML-N, five to PPP and three to the JUI.
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In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, 21 reserved seats for women and four seats for minorities have been suspended. The JUI-F had been allocated 10 seats and PML-N seven additional seats, while the PPP got seven seats and ANP one.
In the Punjab Assembly, 24 reserved seats for women and three minority seats have been suspended post the Supreme Court verdict. These were divided with 23 going to the PML-N, two PPP, and the PML-Q and the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party one each in Punjab.
In the Sindh Assembly, two reserved seats for women and one for minorities have been suspended. Out of these, the PPP had been allocated two and MQM one reserved seat.
