Senate polls: Ishaq Dar, Kamran Michael among PML-N’s official candidates

MNA Nuzhat Sadiq, Muhammad Hamza, Rafiq Rajwana and Zafarullah Dhandhla are the remaining four candidates.

ISLAMABAD: Senator Ishaq Dar, MPA Kamran Michael and Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa have been included the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s official list of candidates for the March 2 Senate polls.

While Dar will be standing for a re-election, the remaining six candidates are first-time contenders and Michael, currently Punjab minister for finance and human rights, has been nominated for the recently-included seats for minorities.

The announcement was made in a statement issued by the party on Sunday. The other four candidates are MNA Nuzhat Sadiq, for the seat reserved for women, Muhammad Hamza, Rafiq Rajwana and Zafarullah Dhandhla.

Reportedly, PML-N’s senior leader Ghulam Dastagir Khan and former bureaucrat Saeed Mehdi have reportedly been asked to prepare as covering candidates.

Elections will be held for 54 seats, 50 on seats vacated by retiring Senators and four seats for minorities that have been added after the 18^th amendment. Provincial assemblies will be electing 12 members each, four will be elected by MNAs from Fata while the rest of the National Assembly will vote for two senators on the federal capital quota.