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Speaking at a press conference in Karachi, former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf announced names of candidates who are set to take part in the senate elections. Former law minister, Farooq H. Naek will contest for the technocrat seat in the senate. Sassi Palejo will contest for the women’s seat.
Former interior Minister Rehman Malik,Islamuddin Shaikh, Saleem Mandiviwala, Engineer Ghianchand and Abdul Latif Ansari were nominated to contest elections from the general seats from Sindh. Nadeem Afzal Chand will be the only candidate contesting the upper house election on the general seat from Punjab. From K-P, Khanzada Khan and Noor Alam of the PPP will contest the elections, where a technocrat seat has been allotted to Humayoon Khan. Nargis Faiz Malik has been nominated for general seat in Islamabad. PPP leaders did not announce any candidate from Balochistan
Ashraf hoped that PPP will again emerged as a leading party in the upper house elections. According to sources, an understanding has been reached among PPP, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League - Functional (PML-F) in Sindh. PPP has principally decided to take seven seats in the province giving three seats to MQM and one seat to PML F. These candidates of the parties are likely to be elected unopposed without holding the election in the province.
Ashraf assured media persons present after the meeting that the nominees for seats were selected after in-depth discussion with party members. He said even though the party’s president Makhdoom Amin Fahim is abroad for a routine health check-up, the selection process took place in consultation with him.
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