Senate elections: PML-N conducts interviews

Party's Parliamentary Board concludes its two-day sitting of conducting interviews of 172 candidates for Senate

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) Parliamentary Board for Senate election concluded its two-day sitting of conducting interviews of the 172 candidates for Senate.

The board in its first sitting on Wednesday conducted interviews of candidates having Punjab’s domiciles, where more than 96 candidates, who have applied for 11 seats of Senate from Punjab, appeared before the board.

According to an official handout, PML-N’s Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq chaired the board meeting while Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif, Pervez Rashid, Khwaja Saad Rafique, K-P Governor Sardar Mehtab Abbasi and other members assisted him.

PM Nawaz was expected to chair the meeting but due to some family reasons he avoided to chair the meeting.

According to PML-N’s sources it has been decided within Sharif family that if Nawaz chairs or goes to any event or party meeting Shahbaz avoids attending that event. They said Nawaz had himself sent Shahbaz to conduct the interviews.

The parliamentary board on Thursday conducted interviews of candidates from the rest of the provinces and a few from FATA.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 6^th, 2015.