The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued the final list of Senate candidates according to which nine have already been elected to Senate seats unopposed while 98 candidates will contest on 45 seats in the Senate elections. According to the ECP, the election for 45 seats will be held on March 2 in which 98 candidates will participate. From Sindh, Raza Rabbani, Saeed Ghani, Dr Karim Ahmad Khawaja and Mukhtar Ahmad Dharma (PPP), Colonel (r) Tahir Hussain Mashadi and Mustaf Kamal (MQM), Maghan Mangrio (PML-F) will contest for seven general seats of the Senate with Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi of Likeminded group contesting as independent candidate. On the two seats reserved for women in Sindh, Nasreen Jalil from the MQM, Mudassir Sehr Kamran from the PPP and Yasmeen Farrukh, an independent candidate, will contest the elections. PPP’s Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh and MQM’s Muhammad Farogh Naseem have already been elected unopposed on the two seats reserved for technocrats while two candidates will contest for the only minority seat from Sindh. In Punjab, eight candidates will contest for seven general seats while candidates for women, minority and technocrats seats were also elected unopposed. M Hamza, Sardar Zulfikar Ali Khosa, Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and Muhammad Rafique Rajwana (PML-N), former law minister Dr Babar Awan and Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Gill (PPP) Kamil Ali Agha (PML-Q) and Mohsin Leghari of the Unification Bloc will contest on seven general seats. Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan (PPP) and Muhammad Ishaq Dar of the PML-N have been elected uncontested on the two seats reserved for technocrats. Nuzhat Sadiq of PML-N and Khalida Parveen of the PPP have won unopposed on two seats reserved for women while Kamran Michael of the PML-N has been declared successful uncontested on one seat reserved for minorities. However, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15 candidates will contest for seven general seats, four candidates will contest for two special seats reserved for women and seven candidates will contest for two seats of technocrats. Three candidates will contest for the only seat reserved for minorities in KP.
From Balochistan, 19 candidates will contest for seven general seats, nine will contest for two seats reserved for women and five candidates will contest for the only seat reserved for minorities. Eleven candidates will contest for four general seats in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
From Islamabad, PPP’s Usman Saifullah has already been elected for the general seat from Islamabad and PML-Q’s Mushahid Hussain Syed has been elected unopposed on technocrats seat.
