Member of Provincial Assembly
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A Member of Provincial Assembly or MPA is an elected representative to one of the four provincial assemblies
of Pakistan
, which are:
All Provincial assemblies are required by law to reserve seats for minorities and women
Deliberative assembly
A deliberative assembly is an organization comprising members who use parliamentary procedure to make decisions. In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the English Parliament as a "deliberative assembly," and the expression became the basic term for a body of...
of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, which are:
- The Provincial Assembly of BalochistanProvincial Assembly of BalochistanThe Provincial Assembly of Balochistan is one of the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan, and the seat of the Government of Balochistan. The Balochistan assembly is the unicameral legislature of the province of Balochistan. It was established under Article 106 of the Constitution of the Pakistan...
- The Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- The Provincial Assembly of the PunjabProvincial Assembly of the PunjabThe Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the province of Punjab, which is located in Lahore in eastern Pakistan...
- The Provincial Assembly of SindhProvincial Assembly of SindhThe Provincial Assembly of the Sindh is a unicameral house of elected representatives of people of Sindh established under Article 106 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan...
All Provincial assemblies are required by law to reserve seats for minorities and women