Four MNAs — Samina Khalid Ghurki and Natasha Daultana on women’s seats and Neelum Kumari and Nelson Azeem on minority seats — have taken oaths as lawmakers.

Meanwhile, 24 MPAs — including three on minority seats and 21 women — took oath in Punjab.

Those who took oath on Friday included Tariq Masih, Wasim Anjum, and Basrooji on minority seats, and Sadia Muzaffar, Fiza Maimoona, Abida Bashir, Maqsoodan Bibi, Amira Khan, Somia Ata, Rahat Afza, Rukhsana Shafiq, Tehseen Fawad, Farzana Abbas, Shagufta Faisal, Uzma Butt, Maria Talal, Sajda Naveed, Nasreen Riaz, Afsheen Hasan, Amna Parveen, Shahr Bano, Zeba Ghafoor, Rubina Nazir and Syeda Sameera on women’s seats.

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