KARACHI: MQM-P has assured Prime Minister Imran Khan of support on the no-confidence motion against the government, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Wednesday.The foreign minister s.
The PPP’s Farooq Naek is held aloft by jubilant supporters outside the Sindh Assembly building (Shakil Adil/White Star) while MQM-P’s newly elected senator Faisal Subzwari speaks to the media on Wednesday evening in this PPI picture.
KARACHI: As predicted, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party bagged seven, instead of six, Senate seats in disproportion to its numeric strength in the Sindh Assembly because of alleged defections within the rank of a three-party opposition alliance that won four remaining seats on Wednesday.
Amid strict security arrangements taken to avoid recurrence of Tuesday’s ugly episode in the house, polling for total 11 Senate seats in Sindh was held peacefully and 167 members exercised their right of vote.
KARACHI: The alleged defection of two Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawmakers is going to hurt the joint opposition in the Sindh Assembly that has fielded five candidates for the Senate election, polling for which is going to be held today (Wednesday).
The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party has fielded 11 candidates on all 11 Senate seats seven general and two each reserved for technocrats and women in disproportion to its 99-lawmaker strength in the 168-strong house.
The joint opposition, which comprises PTI, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Grand Democratic Alliance, has jointly nominated five candidates three on general seats and one each on technocrat and women reserved seats in view of its total strength ie 65 in the house.