Elections for 30 vacant posts of Senate on Tuesday

Islamabad: 59 candidates will contest for 30 vacant seats in the Senate of Pakistan. Radio Pakistan reported that voting to elect thirty members will be held on April 2 (Tuesday). The Election Commission of Pakistan has already notified that eighteen candidates, who were elected unopposed from Punjab and Balochistan in the disputed general elections, will return to contest the vacant seats in these two provinces, it said, in the Senate elections in April. All preparations have been done. 2.

According to Radio Pakistan, voting will now be held for 30 seats of the National Assembly as well as provincial assemblies in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said in a statement on Saturday that “everything was ready for the Senate elections on April 2” as the printing of ballot papers and delivery of election material to the returning officers had already been completed, Dawn reported. It was over.

Overall, 147 candidates had filed nomination papers for 48 Senate seats, out of which 18 have been elected unopposed, the commission said. These include seven general seats each from Punjab and Balochistan and two seats each reserved for women and technocrats from Balochistan. The report said that there will be no elections in Balochistan.

Eleven candidates will contest for seven general seats in Sindh. According to Dawn, three candidates will be in the race for the two seats reserved for women, four for the two seats reserved for technocrats and two for the one seat reserved for minorities in the province.

In Punjab, where all seven candidates for general seats have already been elected unopposed, three candidates for two seats reserved for technocrats, four for two seats reserved for women and two candidates for one seat reserved for minorities Are in the field.

According to Dawn, 16 candidates will contest on seven general seats in KP. Six candidates are in the fray for two seats reserved for technocrats and four candidates for two seats reserved for women in the province.

Two candidates each will compete for one general and one technocrat seat in the federal capital.

Several candidates have secured seats in the upper house of parliament, including Syedal Nasir and Shahzeb Durrani from the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) PML-N, Sardar Umar Gorgez from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Ahmed Khan from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. Are included. JUI-F), and Aimal Khan from ANP, on general seats.

Similarly, Jan Muhammad from National Party, Anwarul Haq Kakar who contested independently, Hasna Bano from PPP and Rahat Jamali from PML-N have also been elected unopposed.

Additionally, Bilal Ahmed Khan of PPP and Maulana Wasey of JUI-F have secured two seats reserved for Ulema/Technical experts in Balochistan through the electoral process.

Similarly, those who won unopposed in the Senate elections included seven members from Punjab.

Elections were to be held on a total of 12 seats in Punjab, out of which seven are general seats where all the candidates won unopposed.

They include Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi (Independent), who has served as the acting Chief Minister of Punjab, and PML-N’s Pervez Rashid, Ahad Cheema, Talal Chaudhary and Nasir Mehmood. Other successful candidates are Raja Nasir Abbas of MWM and Hamid Khan of (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) PTI.

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that it will be forced to postpone the elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) if the KP Assembly Speaker fails to administer oath to the members elected against the reserved seats. (ANI)