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Islamabad: In a serious blow to the ruling party, the joint candidate of opposition parties and former premier, Yousaf Raza Gilani, won the crucial Senate seat from Islamabad, beating PTI’s Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, a well-known economist. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Yousaf Raza Gilani defeated his rival Hafeez Shaikh by five votes while seven votes were rejected in the high-profile contest between the two candidates. However, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Fozia Arshad won the women’s seat from Islamabad after beating Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Farzana Kausar. The Senate elections have been seen as a test for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who came to power in 2018 parliamentary elections. Khan had hoped to improve his standing in the 100-member Senate, where his party had only 15 seats entering the elections.

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