Senate polls: Aitzaz likely to be elected unopposed
Kamran Michael, Ishaq Dar might also make it into the upper house without opposition.
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan is likely to be elected to the Senate unopposed if no one opposes his nomination and the election commission does not reject his papers, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Aitzaz is the only candidate who has filed his nomination papers against a technocrat and a general seat.
Sources said that eleven other candidates of Senate from Punjab also stand to be elected unopposed.
While Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Kamran Michael has already been elected from the minorities’ seat, the party’s Ishaq Dar is also likely to be elected on technocrat seats.
Pakistan Peoples Party’s Khalida Qureshi and PML-N’s Khalida Qureshi may be elected unopposed on the seats reserved for women.
On the general seats, PML-N’s Zafarullah, M Hamza and Rafique Rajwana, PPP’s Babar Awan and Aslam Gill and PML-Q’s Kamil Ali Agha might also be elected unopposed.
Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan is likely to be elected to the Senate unopposed if no one opposes his nomination and the election commission does not reject his papers, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Aitzaz is the only candidate who has filed his nomination papers against a technocrat and a general seat.
Sources said that eleven other candidates of Senate from Punjab also stand to be elected unopposed.
While Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Kamran Michael has already been elected from the minorities’ seat, the party’s Ishaq Dar is also likely to be elected on technocrat seats.
Pakistan Peoples Party’s Khalida Qureshi and PML-N’s Khalida Qureshi may be elected unopposed on the seats reserved for women.
On the general seats, PML-N’s Zafarullah, M Hamza and Rafique Rajwana, PPP’s Babar Awan and Aslam Gill and PML-Q’s Kamil Ali Agha might also be elected unopposed.