7 Role and Responsibility of the Chief Minister (Articles 168–174)

The province's PM-mirror: appointed through the Article-168 ladder (majority-party leader → coalition → largest party → the 30-day confidence votes → dissolution-and-elections within 6 months; the whole process 35 days); the provincial CoM ≤ 20% of the assembly's strength incl. the CM, inclusion-based (168(9)); collective accountability to the Provincial Assembly (168(10)); ceases by resignation to the Provincial Head, failed confidence/no-confidence (per Article 188 — the provincial mirror of Article 100, with the same two-year/one-year bars), loss of membership, death (169); informs the Provincial Head (173); the provincial ordinances-and-assent machinery in the same pattern; the Chief Attorney as the CM's legal-adviser counterpart (Article 160). Thefederal-provincial contrast to memorize: identical confidence architecture; different dissolution triggers (35 vs 55 days; 20% vs 25 ministerial cap; the Provincial Head's federal appointment vs the President's electoral-college election).