Legislative Reforms | MCQs

Explanation

President Mamnoon Hussain signed the FATA merger bill on May 31, 2018.

The bill was passed by the National Assembly on May 24, 2018, and by the Senate on May 25, 2018.

FATA will have 21 seats within the KP Assembly:

• 16 general
• 4 reserved for women
• 1 reserved for non-Muslims

The incumbent senators for FATA will be allowed to complete their six-year terms.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly will have 145 seats

• 115 general
• 26 reserved for women
• 4 reserved for minorities

FATA was merged with KPK in May 2018 under the 25th Amendment. 

Explanation

The One Unit was the reorganization of the provinces of Pakistan .

Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra led it on 22 November 1954.

and passed on 30 September 1955

This program merged the four provinces of West Pakistan into a single province to parallel the province of East Pakistan

• West Punjab
• Sind
• NWFP
• Baluchistan

Additional information:

The One Unit scheme was dissolved on July 1, 1970

General Yahya Khan imposed Legal Framework Order No. 1970 to end the program

and reinstate the provisional status of the Four Provinces as of August 1947.

Explanation

The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Pakistan was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan on April 8, 2010, removing the power of the President of Pakistan to dissolve the Parliament.

Explanation

According to the 18th Amendment Bill North West frontier  province  has been  renamed as Khyber  Pakhtunkhwa.

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Explanation

• The Government of India Act 1935 was a comprehensive legislation passed by the British Parliament.
• That served as the foundation for the current legal framework in India and Pakistan.

Explanation

PRODA _ public and representative office disqualification act

Officers disqualified for as long as 10 years

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Explanation

NRO was an ordinance issued by the former President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, on 5 October 2007.

NRO stands for National Reconciliation Ordinance.

Explanation

The Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2020 had been passed by the National Assembly on July 29, 2020. 

Explanation

After the Senate, the National Assembly on June 8, 2022 also gave its nod to a bill that seeks separation of the judiciary and the executive, clipping the judicial powers of assistant commissioners, the deputy commissioner and the commissioner of Islamabad. 

Explanation

Later in 1985 through a Presidential Order (P.O. No. 14 of 1985),

Seven seats were added to the general seats and

Ten to the reserved seats for women in the national assembly.

Ten seats were exclusively reserved for minorities to be filled through separate electorate system. Thus the total strength of the lower house reached to 237 members.

The strength of senate was also increased from 63 to 87.