ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party
(PPP) won 19 seats while PML-N remained
second with eight seats in the Senate
election held on Friday.
The ANP won seven seats of Senate while five independent candidates were elected.
Similarly,
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam
(PML-Q), PML-F, JUI-F and BNP-A secured four seats each in the Senate.
According
to details, in Punjab, PML-N leaders M. Humza, Zulfiqar Khosa, Kamil
Ali Agha, Mohsin Leghari and Rafiq Rajwana have won Senate seats.
Hidayatullah, Najamul Hassan, Saleh Shah and Hilalur Rehman have been
elected as senators from FATA.
In Sindh, Muzaffar Hussain Shah,
Col (r) Tahir Mashadi, Nasreen Jaleel and Mustafa Kamal also won Senate
seats. From the PPP Raza Rabbani, Saeed Ghani and Mukhtiar Dhamra were
successful.
From Balochistan, Hafiz Hamdullah, Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi, Israrullah Zahri were elected Senators.
Each
of four provinces have 23 seats in the 104-member next Senate, with
four going to the capital Islamabad and eight for the tribal areas in
the northwest.
At least 98 candidates were contesting the polls
while the nine candidates from different political parties have already
been elected unopposed. According to the final list issued by Election
Commission‚ there were ninety eight candidates in the field for forty
five vacant seats.
The elections are being held on the
retirement of fifty senators with additional four members to be elected
first time on the seats reserved for minorities as a result of 18th
Amendment.
Usman Saifullah of PPP and Mushahid Hussain Sayed of PML-Q have been elected unopposed from Islamabad.
Polling
was held in the national and provincial assemblies. The members of the
Lower House from FATA elected four senators from the area, and four
minority members were elected for the first time in the history of the
country.
From Punjab‚ PPP’s Aitzaz Ahsan and PML-N’s Ishaq Dar
have been elected unopposed on the reserved seats for technocrats. Both
the parties have also grabbed one seat each reserved for women. The
senators elected unopposed on these seats are Nuzhat Sadiq and Khalida
Parveen.
Another PML-N candidate Kamran Michael has also been elected unopposed on minority seat. Online
