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PTI's Mustaq Ghani sworn in as speaker K-P Assembly
August 15, 2018
PESHAWAR, Aug 15 (INP): Mushtaq Ghani has been elected and sworn in as the speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.
Ghani received 81 votes while his opponent Laiq Mohammad Khan received 27 votes out of a total 108 votes polled.
PPP’s Nighat Orakzai could not poll her vote as she arrived late and the presiding officer Sardar Aurangzeb Nalota announced the end of the polling and began the counting process.
[timed-content-server show="08/16/2018 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]Orakzai protested in front of the speaker’s desk for not waiting for her. An independent candidate from PK-25 Didar Khan also did not reach the house to poll his vote. Members of the assembly chanted “vote ko izzat do” (give the vote respect) in protest. The process of electing the speaker and deputy speaker of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly commenced on Wednesday as lawmakers voted for their candidate. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani was contesting for the position of speaker against the joint opposition’s Laiq Mohammad Khan of Awami National Party (ANP). INP/AK[/timed-content-server]Related Articles
