Youth Parliament Pakistan is a project launched in 2007 by the

PILDAT Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency, or commonly called Pildat, is a Pakistani think tank which promotes democracy. Pildat is an independent, non-profit oriented think tank that mainly focuses on democracy, governance a ...

to engage youth in

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in healthy discourse and expose them to the democratic process and practices. Members of Youth Parliament Pakistan are selected for duration of a year at a time. The first batch of Youth Parliament Pakistan was selected in 2007 and from thereon, Youth Parliament has had three batches so far including ''2007 batch'', ''2008-09 batch'' and ''2009-10 batch''.2009 batch
Establishment and facilitation of the Youth Parliament Pakistan is part of PILDAT's focus on youth in the country and youth's awareness education and training in the norms of politics and democracy in the country. PILDAT strongly feels that sustainable democracy and the sustainability of sound democratic institutions in Pakistan is not possible without youth's involvement in the democratic and political process even if this involvement is simply as a citizen or voter. The Youth Parliament Pakistan project is currently supported by the Royal Danish Embassy,

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in recognition of the importance of young people's involvement in democracy and democratic practices in Pakistan.

Key Features of the Youth Parliament Pakistan

As a model Parliament for young people, the Youth Parliament Pakistan is patterned after the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

although its membership is smaller than that of the National Assembly. Wherever possible, the Youth Parliament of Pakistan follows the rules of procedures as close to the National Assembly of Pakistan as practical. However, practices from other Parliaments are also adopted to expose Pakistani Youth to comparative parliamentary practices.

Membership

The total membership of Youth Parliament is 60. The breakdown of membership is as follows:

References

External links

Official site
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