Islamabad: The voting for the Senate, Pakistan’s upper house of the parliament, has been completed.
As many as 90 candidates contested for the 45 seats of the Senate, The polling began in four provincial assemblies and the National Assembly of the country at 9:00am and ended at 4:PM. The votes are being counted.
The newly-elected senators will replace 50 outgoing senators who will retire on March 12 after completing their six-year term.
The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday declared nine candidates, including for four newly-added minorities seats in the upper house as unopposed winners.
It may be pointed out that Pakistan media has quoted “unfair’ offerings of millions of rupees to provincial assembly members of Balochistan to vote for the ruling candidates.
Elected Senators (unofficial and unconfirmed results):
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Senators from Islamabad: Mushahid Hussain (PML-Q) and Usman Saifullah (PPP) elected.
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