During the opening day of the 16th Punjab Assembly which was chaired by Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan here Saturday, PML-Q emerged as the third largest party with meagre nine seats behind the independents with 10 seats in the newly elected assembly.
The PML-N and PTI also turned out the only political parties in the Punjab with representation on the reserved seats for the minority while the PPP, the PML-Q and other parties would not have any minority representative in the Punjab Assembly 2013-18.