Despite speculations that the two major parties in the ruling coalition, the PML-N and the PPP, had agreed to dissolve the lower house on August 8, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has stated that the date of dissolution of the National Assembly has not yet been finalized.

Marriyum said on her official Twitter account on Tuesday, “The date [of dissolution of National Assembly] will be decided in consultation with the PDM and allied parties.” After some deliberation, “the decision will be officially announced,” she said.
Voters around the nation are registering to vote in the forthcoming general election. In August, the National Assembly and the other two provincial assemblies will have served for five years.
Recently, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared that his administration will be leaving office before the end of its term, clearing the path for early elections.
According to the Constitution, elections must be held within 60 days of the assembly’s dissolution once its term ends. But if the legislature is dissolved early, even by a day, elections can be held in less than 90 days.
Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar had stated last week that the National Assembly’s term would not be extended, but that the national and two provincial legislatures could be dissolved a few days before the end of their term to allow political parties an extra 30 days to run their election campaigns.
The NA’s term will end when it does. The legislative body has finished its tenure. Last week, after a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms, Tarar told some journalists that the assembly could be dissolved early if necessary.
But Tarar, who is part of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), made it clear that no decision had been made yet to dissolve the assembly early.
No one possesses ilm-e-ghaib [knowledge of the unknown] as to whether or not the assembly will be dissolved early. “It all depends on the circumstances,” he said.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) proposed dissolving the remaining legislatures on August 8, four days before the finish of their five-year term, and Minister for Commerce Naveed Qamar, who was also leaving the conference room after attending the meeting, revealed this to reporters.
The PPP has proposed holding elections on September 8 for the National Assembly and two provincial assemblies (Sindh and Balochistan), which the ruling alliance is considering because it would give them three months to campaign.