Senior Adviser to Prime Minister on Internal Affairs Rehman Malik has been elected unopposed to the Senate in by-election on Monday.
This was announced by the Sindh election commissioner and returning office for the Senate by-election 2012, Sono Khan Baloch.
A statement said a seat reserved for technocrats including clerics from Sindh, had fallen vacant due to resignation of Malik and nomination papers were filed only by him.
Subsequent upon scrutiny of nomination papers, the Sindh Election Commission declared Malik, a PPP candidate, as returned uncontested to the Senate seat from Sindh under Section 18(1) of the Senate (Election) Act 1975, it was further stated.