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03 Mar 2021
Tariq Butt, Correspondent
There was a huge upset in the Senate election as opposition candidate and former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani defeated government’s nominee Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh in the race for the Islamabad seat on Wednesday.
The National Assembly in which the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and its allied parties have majority was the electoral college for the Islamabad seat.
Gilani, fielded by the opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) secured 169 votes while Sheikh could manage 164 ballots. Seven votes were declared invalid and were rejected by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
A lawmaker casts his vote in Senate elections.
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