1.   Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.

2.   Press and provincial assemblies hastened to proclaim solidarity with the Tsar.

3.   The delegates sit in a provincial assembly and implement directives from both regional and national capitals.

4.   The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.

5.   The provincial assembly were deaf to all pleas for financial help.

6.   The three provincial assemblies together constitute the Territorial Congress.

7.   But first each provincial assembly has to decide on its method of selecting its delegates.

8.   He is clearly disappointed that he had not increased the number of seats his party holds in the provincial assembly.

9.   The federal government could, in theory, ignore referendum and provincial assembly alike.