List of members of the 8th National Assembly of Pakistan

Direct-seat party position

Party			Party
	Party	Seats		Party	Seats
	PPP	94		JUI(F)	7
	IJI	55		PAI	3
	Independents	40		ANP	2
	BNA	2		NPP (Khar Group)	1
	PDP	1		JUP (D)	1
Total = 206

The 8th National Assembly of Pakistan was the legislature of Pakistan following the 1988 Pakistani general election, which restored party-based parliamentary politics at the federal level after the 1985 non-party election. The Assembly was the lower house of the bicameral Majlis-e-Shura, and had a total strength of 237 members: 207 general seats, 20 reserved seats for women elected by the Assembly itself, and 10 seats for non-Muslim minorities.^[1][2]

The first session of the Assembly was convened on 30 November 1988.^[1] Benazir Bhutto took oath as prime minister on 2 December 1988, becoming the first woman to head the government of Pakistan and of a Muslim-majority state.^[1] Meraj Khalid was elected Speaker of the National Assembly on 3 December 1988, while Ashraf Khatoon Abbasi was elected Deputy Speaker.^[3][4] Abdul Wali Khan served as Leader of the Opposition during the life of the Assembly.^[5]

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) emerged as the largest bloc in the direct election, while MQM-backed candidates running as independents swept much of urban Sindh and became pivotal to government formation.^[6][4] The Assembly was dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan under Article 58(2)(b) on 6 August 1990, bringing the first Bhutto government to an end.^[1]