PPPP’s Sharmila, Sehar elected on reserved seats

ISLAMABAD:

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified Sharmila Faruqui and Sehar Kamran of the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) as members of National Assembly on the reserved seats for women in placs of Shazia Marri and Nafisa Shah, who relinquished their seats on Sunday.

Marri and Shah were on the PPPP’s priority lists for the reserved seats for women and were allocated seats by the ECP last week.

Since, the two had already won the direct elections on February 8, from NA-209 Sanghar and NA-202 Khairpur, respectively, therefore, they relinquished the reserved seats.

According to the ECP notification both Sharmila Faruqui and Sehar Kamran had been declared elected on the reserved seats held by Marri and Shah. The ECP also issued a separate notification of victory of independent candidate Khizer Hussain Mazari’s for a Punjab Assembly seat, PP-297.

(WITH INPUT FROM APP)