{"id":39082,"date":"2018-08-13T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=39082"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:51:42","slug":"1st-session-of-paks-newly-elected-parliament-begins-329-members-take-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/1st-session-of-paks-newly-elected-parliament-begins-329-members-take-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"1st session of Pak\u2019s newly-elected Parliament begins; 329 members take oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"heading_small\">The maiden session of Pakistan\u2019s newly-elected Parliament began today with the outgoing speaker administering oath to 329 members as part of the process of transition and handing over powers to the new government.<\/p>\n<p>Ayaz Sadiq, speaker of the previous National Assembly, presided over the 15th Parliament\u2019s session and administered oath to the new leaders in the 342-member lower house. The new members signed their presence in a register.<\/p>\n<p>President Mamnoon Hussain had summoned the maiden session of the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, at 10 AM in parliament house today, 19 days after Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party emerged as the single largest in the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister-in-waiting and PTI chairman Khan and other prominent leaders including Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and former president Asif Ali Zardari were present in the assembly for the oath-taking. The speaker announced that elections of the new speaker and his deputy will be held on August 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maiden session of Pakistan\u2019s newly-elected Parliament began today with the outgoing speaker administering oath to 329 members as part of the process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39084,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39082\/revisions\/39084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}