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.
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