PESHAWAR, Oct 13: The 124-member NWFP assembly elect is composed of a vast majority of inexperienced parliamentarians as only 15 former MPAs could get through to the provincial assembly in the Oct 10 elections.

Though the graduation condition introduced by the military government has certainly a hand in helping new faces to get in the NWFP assembly, much more than that has to do with the stunning defeat meted out to Awami National Party, PML(N), PML(Q) and PPP at the hands of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

Out of the 48 members elected from the platform of religious parties’ conglomerate, only four have been members of the NWFP assembly.

The 15 old guards elected to the provincial assembly include Bashir Ahmed Bilour of ANP, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan Jhagra of PPP, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao of PPP(S), Abdul Akbar of PPP, independently elected Dr M Salim, Shad Mohammed Khan of PPP(S), Malik Zafar Azam of MMA, independently elected Shahzada Mohammed Gustasib Khan, Waji-uz-Zaman Khan of PML(Q), Maulana Asmatullah of MMA, Sardar Inayatullah Gandapur Khan, Syed Murid Kazim Shah of PPP(S), Akram Khan Durani of MMA, Anwar Kamal Khan of PML(N) and Pir Mohammed Khan of MMA.

Apart from the 99 general seats, the provincial assembly also include 22 seats reserved for women and three reserved for minorities taking the total tally of NWFP assembly to 124.

Political analyst believed that with so many new faces it would be a real tough test for the new assembly to perform its role and duties in line with the relevant rules of business.

Though in the past, too, new faces got through to the provincial assembly in every elections held since 1988, the balance between the old and new faces had always been in the favour of experienced parliamentarians who always out numbered the new-comers.

“The presence of several number of new faces was expected in view of the graduation condition, but no one had comprehended that 88 per cent of the total number of provincial assembly members would be new,” said an officer of the provincial assembly secretariat.