PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has approved a budget of more than Rs159 billion for running the affairs of provincial departments for the ongoing month.
KP Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati approved the budget as the newly-elected Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur presented the motion before the house.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as Polling Station
The Assembly also unanimously adopted a resolution to declare the House chamber as a polling station for the upcoming presidential election on March 9.
In his speech in the house, Sunni Ittehad Council leader Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to give their party the reserved seats for women and minorities.
Addressing the house, Speaker Babar Swati said the KP Assembly believed in the rule of law and had trust in the courts that they would resolve these issues.
Later, Speaker Babar Saleem Swati prorogued the Assembly session for an indefinite period.
