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.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan casts vote in the Senate elections at the KP Assembly, Peshawar, on Wednesday. (Right) ANP lawmakers make victory signs after their party candidate, Hidayatullah Khan, won a Senate seat. White Star/Dawn
PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) swept the Senate elections from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by winning 10 of the 12 seats of the Upper House of Parliament on Wednesday.
The PTI clinched five general seats, two of technocrats and women each and one of minorities from the province, while the opposition Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) and Awami National Party (ANP) claimed one general seat each.
However, the government’s ally, Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), failed to secure any Senate seat.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan If PTI lawmakers feel I am incompetent, will sit in opposition : Imran Khan after Senate blow ANI | Updated: Mar 04, 2021 23:16 IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 4 (ANI): Addressing the nation after the Senate election blow, bewildered PakistanPrime MinisterImran Khan said he is willing to sit in the opposition if his party s lawmakers feel that he is incompetent .
He also gave a warning to the country s opposition that he will not spare anyone until they return the nation s money even if that meant losing the premiership. All members [of PTI], this is your democratic right. If you feel I am incompetent, I will sit in the opposition, the premier said while addressing the nation on Thursday.