Chaudhrys decline to back PDM in race for Senate chairmanship Top Story Ag Agencies ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: A day after the Prime Minister secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, the opposition leadership held separate high-level meetings, one among themselves, while another with a major coalition government ally to shore up support for the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate as Senate chairman, which was ultimately fruitless. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership met in Islamabad on Sunday and decided on fielding Miftah Ismail as a candidate for the NA-249 constituency of Karachi after PTI’s Faisal Vawda resigned, Maryam Nawaz announced following the meeting.