Pml-n women’s wing: 23 applications for reserved seats

No application was forwarded by the women’s wing members to seek a party ticket on a general seat.

PESHAWAR:

In order to secure a position from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) platform in the next provincial assembly, 23 women have applied to be nominated on reserved seats.

Of the total 124 seats in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly, 22 are reserved for women and three for non-Muslims. In the 2008 general elections, reserved seats for women were distributed among various political parties on the basis of a formula wherein any party which had five members elected on general seats would get one reserved seat for women.

President of the wing Tahira Bukhari said: “We will form a committee in every division in K-P comprising five senior members of the women’s wing”.

It was learnt that no application had been forwarded by the women’s wing members to seek a party ticket on a general seat.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2013.