Senate elections tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Polling to elect thirty members of the Senate will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) from 9 am till 5pm while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced boycott of the Senate elections in Sindh.

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has finalized all preparations for conducting nationwide Senate elections.

ECP has already notified eighteen candidates as unopposed returned on vacant seats of Balochistan and Punjab.

Polling for the rest of the thirty seats will be held in the National Assembly and provincial assemblies of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh.

However, the Senate election on 11 seats of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was in jeopardy,

.Elections will be held on 12 seats in Sindh, 5 seats in Punjab, and 2 seats in the federal capital Islamabad. 

Ballot papers in four different colors have been printed for the Senate elections. White papers will be used for general seats, green for technocrat seats, pink for women, and yellow for minority seats.

Additionally, the transportation of election materials to returning officers has been completed.

Returning officers have already issued the final list of the candidates.

PTI TO BOYCOTT SENATE ELECTIONS IN SINDH

Meanwhile the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced boycott of the Senate elections in Sindh, slated for April 2, citing extensive allegations of electoral fraud.

PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh accused the elections of being tainted by rigging.

He pointed out that individuals who purportedly won according to Form 45 were not represented in the Sindh Assembly, insinuating that PTI-backed candidates were unfairly deprived of their rightful victories through manipulation of election results in Form 47.

Sheikh revealed that six PTI-supported candidates were originally slated to contest in the Sindh Senate polls but have now opted to boycott the process.

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is poised to secure one of the two Senate seats reserved for women uncontested.

Among the PPP candidates vying for Senate seats are Syed Masroor Ahsan, Syed Kazim Ali Shah, Jeean Khan Sarfaraz Rajar, Nadeem Ahmed Bhutto, Dost Ali Jessar, Ashraf Ali Jatoi, Sarmad Ali, Zamir Hussain Ghumro, Poonjo, Qurat-ul-Ain Marri, and Rubina Qaimkhani.

Additionally, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has nominated a single candidate, Amir Waliuddin Chishti, for the general Senate seat.

Moreover, an independent candidate, Faisal Vawda, backed by the MQM-P, is contending for a general Senate seat from Sindh.

ECP finalises arrangements for Senate elections