Fawad hints at outnumbering 'turncoats' in NA by new nominations on reserved seats.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTi) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday hinted at once again outnumbering the 'turncoats' in the national assembly by making new nominations for the seats reserved for women and minorities in the lower house of the Parliament. at present, the national assembly consists of 342 members of which 60 seats were reserved for women. Similarly, 10 seats were reserved for minorities. Talking to a private TV channel, Fawad said that his party had another card to play after the speaker national assembly kicked out all of its members from the national assembly by accepting their resignations except the dissidents. 'We are going to make new nominations for the seats reserved for women and minorities... by that way, we will be able to send even 34 new members to the national assembly who would be enough to outnumber 20 turncoats,' he said and added the option of the President asking the prime minister for a vote of confidence was still very much there.

Persons are elected on the seats reserved for women for a province in accordance with law through a proportional representation system of political parties' lists of candidates on...