PML-N finalises candidates for Senate elections

Upper House elections scheduled for March 3

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) unveiled on Wednesday its  candidates for the Senate elections scheduled for March 3.

Earlier on Monday, the prime minister held meetings with the applicants and assured them that they would be accommodated elsewhere if they were not issued tickets.

Following is a list of candidates poised to contest elections in the Upper House from Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan and Islamabad.

Punjab

Technocrat seat:

1.  Raja Muhammad Zafarulhaq

Women’s seats:

1. Begum Najma Hameed


2.  Kiran Dar

General seats:

1.  Professor Sajid


2. Pervaiz Rasheed


3.  Mushahidullah Khan


4. Nehal Hashmi


5. Chaudhry Tanveer


6. Doctor Asif Kirmani


7. Lieutenant General (retd) Abdul Qayyum


8. Dr Ghaus Niazi

Islamabad

General seat:

1. Iqbal Zafar Jhagra

Women's seat:

1. Dr. Raheela Magsi

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

General seats:

1. Lieutenant General (retd) Salahuddin Trimzi


2. Pir Sabir Shah

Sindh

General seat:

1.  Syed Zafar Ali Shah

Balochistan

Technocrat seats:

1. Shahbaz Khan Durrani


2. Ayaz Khan Sawati

Women's seat:

1. Kalsoom Perveen

Minorities seat:

1.  Dhanaish Kumar

General seats:

1.  Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasir


2. Ameer Afzal Khan Mandokhel


3. Mir Nematullah Zehri


4. Sydaal Khan Nasir


5.  Mir Irfan Kurd