PTI candidate Hafeez Shaikh s Senate loss is Pak establishment s defeat: Senior journalist Hamid Mir
PTI candidate Hafeez Shaikh s Senate loss is Pak establishment s defeat: Senior journalist Hamid Mir
In a close vote, Pakistan s former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of the opposition Pakistan People s Party (PPP) defeated Shaikh, who currently serves as the country s finance minister, by 169 to 164 votes, with reports suggesting that nine members of the ruling party indulged in cross-voting ensuring a win for Gillani.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf s (PTI) Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. (File photo: Reuters)
While the Opposition parties of Pakistan have hailed the defeat of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf s (PTI) Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in the Senate election for Islamabad seat as revenge by democracy , keen political observer and senior journalist Hamid Mir calls it a defeat of the Pakistani establishment (Pakistan military). Although there are others who believe that the establishmen
Islamabad, Pakistan – Prime Minister Imran Khan will face a vote of confidence from the country’s Parliament after suffering defeat on a key seat in the country’s Senate elections, party officials say.
Elections for 48 seats of the Senate, the 96-member upper house of parliament, were held on Wednesday, with legislators voting through the day in the country’s provincial assemblies and in the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament.
Official results are expected on Thursday, but unofficial results from the country’s Election Commission indicated Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had suffered a key defeat in the National Assembly, where the opposition candidate defeated the PTI’s Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
March 2, 2021
Pakistan has confirmed that its plan to develop a massive oil city in Balochistan’s Gwadar district, which will also host the $10 billion Aramco oil refinery, that is expected to be ready by the end of this year.
The development assumes significance as Pakistan seems to have mended its ties with Saudi Arabia after the two countries faced many setbacks in their relations in 2020.
The proposed model city, to be developed on 88,000 acres of land in Balochistan’s Gwadar district, will host the infrastructure to refine and process petroleum products, the supplies of which will come from the Gulf countries, to be used for local consumption.
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