7 Dissolution of Parliament

1. The HoR's one door (Article 76(7)): if the Article-76 ladder exhausts — the PM appointed under (3)/(5) fails confidence and no member can be appointed — the President, on the PM's recommendation, dissolves the HoR and fixes elections within six months; the ordinance-family and pending-bill consequences (111(10) proviso: bills under consideration die); 2. What dissolution is NOT: no discretionary dissolution (the pre-2017 practice of Article-85-era dissolutions — the 1990s' and 2000s' traumas — deliberately foreclosed); no mid-term dissolution by the PM's whim; 3. The judicial dimension: dissolution reviewable — the 2020–21 dissolution-and-reinstatement saga (the Court reinstating the HoR — the bound-presidency doctrine's confirmation; describe by outcome); 4. The NA's permanence: the National Assembly never dissolved (the ⅓ retirement cycle — 86(3)); the provincial assemblies' own dissolution door (Article 168(7) — Unit 4).