Supported open voting in Senate polls to avoid horse trading: PM
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PM Imran expressed hope to win the elections in the upper house of the Parliament.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday has met Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in Islamabad and discussed startegy for the upcoming Senate polls.
During the meeting, the premier has said that the opposition parties are taking all the measures to ensure victory in the Senate elections. I supported open ballot in the polls to avoid horse trading, he added.
PM Imran further expressed hope to win the elections in the upper house of the Parliament.
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Coalition parties join hands to put country on right path: Hafeez
March 02, 2021
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh says the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and its coalition parties are fighting the battle for the future of Pakistan and will secure historic victory in the Senate elections tomorrow.
Addressing a press conference along with the leaders of coalition parties, including Balochistan Awami Party, Grand Democratic Alliance, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, the minister said all the coalition parties have united to put the country on the right direction.
Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque said his party MQM-P is fully supporting the government to strengthen democracy and parliament, and to root out corruption from the country.
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 It rejected 25 of them on different grounds whereas three candidates have withdrawn from the race.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.