Nawaz, Shehbaz cast their votes for Senate election
ISLAMABAD (MNP) – Prime Minister Shehabz Sharif and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif cast their votes for Senate election.
Polling in National as well as Sindh and Punjab assemblies was held simultaneously to elect 19 senators. As many as 35 candidates are in the field for 19 Senate seats whereas 18 senators have already been declared winners unopposed.
In Islamabad, Ishaq Dar of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is contesting on the technocrat seat, Rana Mehmoodul Hasan of the Pakistan Peoples Party on the general seat, Ansar Mehmood supported by the PTI on the technocrat seat and Farzand Hussain Shah is contesting on the general seat.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had postponed the Senate elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Provincial Election Commissioner Shamshad Khan announced commission’s decision as returning officer for the KP Assembly.
Earlier, opposition lawmakers in KP Assembly had submitted a resolution to the provincial election commissioner to postpone the Senate elections.