[4] Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage, representing electoral districts known as National Assembly constituencies.

According to the constitution, the 70 seats reserved for women and religious minorities are allocated to the political parties according to their proportional representation.

On 3 April 2022, President of Pakistan Arif Alvi dissolved[5] the Assembly Under Section 58-I and 48-I on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

[7] After these events, on 11 April, after National Assembly proceedings, a vote was held on deciding the next prime minister of Pakistan, overseen by Ayaz Sadiq.

The vote would be conducted under the supervision of Ayaz Sadiq, resulting in the election of Shehbaz Sharif as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Following this, large political crises occurred across Pakistan in late 2022 and for the duration of 2023 between the ousted Imran Khan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif until a new assembly was elected in early 2024.

Under Article 50 of the Constitution, the federal legislature is the bicameral Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament), which comprises the President and the two Houses, the National Assembly and the Senate.

Through debates, adjournment motions, question hours, and standing committees, the National Assembly keeps a check on the government.

The Parliament scrutinizes public spending and exercises control of expenditure incurred by the government through the work of the relevant standing committees.

The Senate, the upper house of the Parliament, has equal representation from the federating units balancing the provincial inequality in the National Assembly, where the number of members is based on population of the provinces.

The constitution also details several disqualifications in Article 63, which include mental instability, insolvency, criminal conviction and accepting dual-citizenship or relinquishing Pakistani nationality, among others.

[9] The seats in the National Assembly are allocated to each province and the federal capital based on population, as officially published in the preceding census.

The present allocation of seats is as under:[10] The National Assembly is elected for a five-year term based on adult franchise and one person, one vote.

The tenure of the National Assembly also comes to an end if dissolved on the advice of the Prime Minister or by the President in his discretion under the Constitution.

In the 1990s, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif proposed a bill to amend the 1973 constitution to allow a Member to serve a third term as prime minister.

In the summoning order, the President gives the date, time, and place (usually the Parliament House), for the National Assembly to meet.

If the bill is passed in the joint sitting, with or without amendments, by the votes of the majority of the members of the two houses, it shall be presented to the President for assent.

In 2023 the National Assembly Secretariat would constitute the Pasban-e-Aman (پاسبان امان) Force for the security of the Parliament House.

According to the article, the majority of Pasban-e-Aman Force personnel belong to Gujar Khan, the constituency of then NA Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf.

Article 50 of the Constitution clearly states that the Parliament of Pakistan consists of the President and two Houses known as the National Assembly and the Senate.

The election was postponed in the NA-8 Bajaur constituency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to the killing of candidate Rehan Zaib Khan.