...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) have been allotted 33 of the total 70 National Assembly seats reserved for women and minorities, taking the party's total in the lower house of the parliament to 158 ‐ just 14 shy of the number required for simple majority.
The Election Commission of Pakistain on Saturday distributed the reserved seats among the parties as per the quotas that their respective electoral performances commanded.
As expected, the PTI emerged as the biggest beneficiary after the distribution, thanks to the 116 seats its candidates had won themselves and the nine independents whom it had later recruited.
In all, the Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
-led party was allotted 16 reserved seats for women from Punjab, four from Sindh, seven from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and one from Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
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The party, which looks set to form its government in the Centre, also bagged five of the total 10 seats reserved for non-Moslems. Of the rest of the five, two have been given to the PML-N, two to PPP and one to MMA.