PESHAWAR – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has lost its two-third majorityin the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly following the changes in the results ofsome seats.

However, the Imran Khan-led party still has a simple majority, so it canform the government. Combining general seats, reserved seats andindependent candidates, PTI had 83 members in the assembly – they needed 82for a two-third majority.

After the recount in PK-70 Peshawar, PTI’s Shah Farman lost the election.In PK-23 Shangla, where PTI’s Shaukat Yusufzai won, the election has beendeclared null and void since only 5% of the voters were women. The ElectionAct 2017 says that the number of female voters has to be at least 10% ofthe total votes in the area.

The party also lost a reserved seat for women – they now have 14. The partyalso has two minority seats. The KP Assembly has been summoned on August 13where the newly elected MPAs will take oath.