Newly elected members from PPP, PML-N take oath for Sindh provincial assembly; opposition remains absent

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The newly elected members belonging to the PPP, PML-N and other ally parties on Saturday took oath in the Sindh Provincial Assembly, amidst a boycott by the opposition parties against the alleged rigged results in the February 8 polls..

Newly sworn-in Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani conducted the oath ceremony from which the newly won legislators backed by former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and other opposition parties were absent...

"The Sindh Assembly's MPAs elect took their oath on Saturday with protests continuing in several parts of Karachi by some opposition parties against alleged rigged results in the general elections earlier this month," said an official...

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) which is also forming the government at the centre with the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) bagged 84 seats in the 168-member Sindh assembly followed by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement 28 and PTI independents 14 and two each from GDA and JI...

The GDA, a conglomerate of mostly Sindhi nationalist parties, said that several of its workers were arrested by the Karachi police at various points across the city as they protested against alleged poll rigging...

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