February 28, 2021
The largest party in the Senate until recently, the PML-N, may secure seven or eight seats if things go as planned.
Early projections gave the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) no more than five seats in the Senate. The party appears to be disadvantaged in several ways. Seventeen (out of twenty-nine) PML-N senators will be retiring in March 2021. The party has also lost a vibrant candidate in Mushahidullah Khan. In addition, the rejection of Senator Pervaiz Rashid’s nomination papers has been a set-back for the party. However, some analysts believe that the PML-N might still do well by taking advantage of rifts within the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).