As ‘water politics’ has brought Sindh and Punjab face to face, a Senate committee has unanimously decided to take up in its next meeting the row between the two provinces. Photo by Kohi Marri/File
ISLAMABAD: As ‘water politics’ has brought Sindh and Punjab face to face, a Senate committee has unanimously decided to take up in its next meeting the row between the two provinces.
The decision was made at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Inter-Provincial Coordination held here on Wednesday and presided over by Senator Mian Raza Rabbani. It decided to invite representatives of Punjab and Sindh, the chairman of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) and other stakeholders, including the secretaries of Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Energy (Power Division), for a discussion on the issues.
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March 4, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf notched up the top score in the Senate election Wednesday with 18 seats followed by PPP’s eight.
Despite emerging as the largest party in the Upper House, the PTI suffered a defeat at the hands of PDM’s Yusuf Raza Gilani who managed to get the Islamabad general seat from PTI’s Hafeez Sheikh. Gilani’s victory was a shocker for the PTI government, forcing PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to triumphantly tweet: “Democracy is the best revenge. Jeya Bhutto!”
Gilani got 169 votes against Sheikh’s 164. Seven votes were rejected. Votes were counted twice - second time at the request of government legislators.
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March 4, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf notched up the top score in the Senate election Wednesday with 18 seats followed by PPP’s eight.
Despite emerging as the largest party in the Upper House, the PTI suffered a defeat at the hands of PDM’s Yousaf Raza Gilani who managed to get the Islamabad general seat from PTI’s Hafeez Sheikh. Gilani’s victory was a shocker for the PTI government, forcing PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to triumphantly tweet: Democracy is the best revenge. Jeya Bhutto!
Gilani got 169 votes against Sheikh’s 164. Seven votes were rejected. Votes were counted twice - second time at the request of government legislators.
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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