Akhtar Mengal, Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind discuss Senate elections
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Akhtar Mengal, Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind discuss Senate elections
QUETTA (Dunya News) – Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) Chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal along with a parliamentary delegation met Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind in Quetta.
According to details, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, a former ally of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and head of BNP Mengal, who has been sitting on opposition benches, met PTI Balochistan President and Provincial Education Minister Sardar Yar Muhammad.
Political situation in the country, including the Senate elections on March 3 were discussed in detail during the meeting. Sardar Akhtar Mengal was accompanied by members of assembly from his party in the meeting.
In the current composition, smaller parties have a make-or-break-role in the upper house.
As election to half the seats in the upper house of the parliament approaches, the role minor parties can play is crucial to the number game.
The Senate is set for election to 48 seats on March 3. As many as nine groups –with a relatively small representation in the assemblies – have a significant role to play in the exercise. Representation for political parties in the upper house in proportion to the number of seats they have in the National and Provincial Assemblies is meant to give smaller parties some representation in the house of federation. Currently, there are eight political parties with small representation (two to five seats) in the Senate and four independent members. It is expected that the number of smaller parties will rise to nine after the election for the next term.
There were no comments from the PTI in this regard. APP/File
QUETTA: In a dramatic development, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s ticket holder for Senate election, Syed Zahoor Agha, withdrew his nomination papers along with three candidates of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) on Thursday.
Mr Agha was awarded PTI ticket after the party withdrew its ticket from business tycoon Mohammad Abdul Qadir following strong opposition to his nomination from the Balochistan chapter of the party.
Spokesman for the Balochistan government, Liaquat Shahwani said in his tweet that Mr Agha had withdrawn from the contest in favour of the BAP. He said that BAP President Jam Kamal Alyani had requested the PTI leadership for withdrawing its candidate in favour of his party.
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The statistical data shows that the ECP had received a total of 170 nomination papers. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Two technocrats each from Punjab and Balochistan are set to be elected unopposed as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday completed the process of scrutiny of nomination papers filed by candidates from all over the country to contest for 48 seats of the Senate, for which polling would be held on March 3.
The statistical data shows that the ECP had received a total of 170 nomination papers. It rejected 25 of them on different grounds whereas three candidates have withdrawn from the race. Since the candidature of Mushahidullah Khan of the PML-N has become “infructuous” after his death, the total number of valid nomination papers with the ECP is now 141.