Government and Opp create a structure for power sharing in NA committees.

The penultimate stage of negotiations began on Thursday when the opposition and government produced a power-sharing formula for the creation of National Assembly committees.

Eleven committees in the National Assembly will be chaired by the opposition, compared to 26 committees headed by the ruling coalition.

The head of the Kashmir Committee will be chosen by the administration, and the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee would come from the opposition.

A speaker from the National Assembly House Business Advisory Committee will take the podium.

Per the arrangement, the Public Accounts Committee will consist of 16 members from the government alliance, while standing committees will have 13 members.

Similar to the House Business Advisory Committee, which would have 18 coalition government members, the Kashmir Committee will have 15 members.

The National Assembly’s standing committees on public accounts, Kashmir, and membership of the opposition will each include seven opposition members.

Apart from this, the Muslim League-N will head 14 committees in the National Assembly, with the PPP receiving chairmanships of eight committees.

Two committee chairs will be appointed to MQM. The Islamic Party of Pakistan (IPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) will each receive one chairmanship.

JUI will chair one committee, and PTI will back independent members chairing the other ten.

Six members will be nominated by opposition parties, making up the remaining 20 members of the standing committees, with 14 members appointed by the administration.

Eight members from PML-N, four from PPP, and one each from PML-Q and MQM will comprise each standing committee.

There will be one JUI member and five independent PTI members appointed to the standing committee.

16 Members of Parliament (MPs) from the administration and 7 from the opposition will make up the Public Accounts Committee’s 23 members.
15 members of the administration and 7 members of the opposition will make up the roughly 22-member Privileges Committee. Eleven government members and five opposition members make up the government guarantees committee’s 16 members.

The administration will apportion 15 members to the 22-member Kashmir Committee, while the opposition will provide seven members. The House Business Advisory Committee will consist of 26 members, with eight members from the opposition and 18 from the government.