Peshawar
March 14, 2021
PESHAWAR: Senator Mirza Mohammad Afridi is the first person from the erstwhile Fata to hold one of the highest elected offices by winning election as the Deputy Chairman Senate.
The 42-year old Afridi, belonging to Bara in the Khyber tribal district, polled an impressive 54 votes to defeat JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the joint candidate of the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), who secured 44 votes.
His victory by a margin of 10 votes was surprising as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led coalition government’s candidate for the Senate chairman, Mohammad Sadiq Sanjarani, could obtain 48 votes only. Sanjarani outvoted the PDM candidate Yousaf Raza Gilani, who is affiliated with the PPP and got 42 votes.
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