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ISLAMABAD: Leader of the House in the Senate of Pakistan Senator Shahzad Waseem Thursday said that the opposition was contradicting its own stance opted in 2016 against horse trading in the meeting of the Senate Committee of the Whole.
He said that in 2015, Mian Raza Rabbani was the Chairman Senate, Raja Zafarul Haq was the Leader of the House and Aitzaz Ahsan was the Leader of the Opposition, and the issue of horse trading was debated in the Upper House on August 7, 2015. On August 10, 2015, the Leader of the House moved a motion to refer the matter to the Senate Committee of the Whole. The committee met on Nov 11, 2015 and May 12 2016. On May 20, 2016, the Committee of the Whole presented its proposals. These were unanimous proposals and no one opposed them.
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LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz wants open ballot in Senate elections for which the true procedure of amending the Constitution should be adopted. This was said by PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah in a press conference held at the Model Town Party Secretariat along with PML-N Punjab General Secretary Owais Leghari, Punjab Information Secretary Azma Bukhari and other party leaders on Thursday.
“We also want open ballot elections but with the approval of Parliament,” he said, adding that there should be a parliamentary committee on this issue. “If the government wants to sit, it can come up with a better proposal instead of the agenda of insulting the opposition,” he maintained. “The statements of the Supreme Court in the Senate open ballot presidential reference are a matter of concern for us,” he said and added that only the parliament can amend the Constitution.
The statistical data shows that the ECP had received a total of 170 nomination papers. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Two technocrats each from Punjab and Balochistan are set to be elected unopposed as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday completed the process of scrutiny of nomination papers filed by candidates from all over the country to contest for 48 seats of the Senate, for which polling would be held on March 3.
The statistical data shows that the ECP had received a total of 170 nomination papers. It rejected 25 of them on different grounds whereas three candidates have withdrawn from the race. Since the candidature of Mushahidullah Khan of the PML-N has become “infructuous” after his death, the total number of valid nomination papers with the ECP is now 141.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) senior member Senator Mushahidullah Khan passed away here in the early hours of Thursday, prompting tributes to pour in from across the political divide. He was 68.
According to Geo News, Mohammad Zubair, the spokesman for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz, said Mushahidullah had been unwell for some time.
“Mushahidullah used to come to the Senate sessions with great determination and courage,” Zubair said, adding that the senator was “a fearless man who stood firm against dictatorships”.
Maryam said she was “shattered to hear the sad news”. “Senator Mushahidullah Khan, MNS’s loyal and exceptional companion left us. Will never be able to forget his fatherly affection and love. Huge huge loss. May Allah SWT shower upon him every blessing that HE has reserved for the afterlife. Ameen,” she wrote on Twitter. Senator Faisal Javed Khan of the ruling PTI also expressed
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