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QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan casts his vote during the Senate elections at the Balochistan Assembly on Wednesday.—PPI QUETTA: The Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), the ruling party in the province, has become the fourth largest party in the Senate after winning seven more seats of the upper house from Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to unofficial results of Wednesday’s Senate elections, the BAP now has 12 seats in the upper house. The ruling alliance in Balochistan won eight out of 12 Senate seats from Balochistan. The BAP clinched six seats while its ally ...

Top Story March 4, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf notched up the top score in the Senate election Wednesday with 18 seats followed by PPP’s eight. Despite emerging as the largest party in the Upper House, the PTI suffered a defeat at the hands of PDM’s Yusuf Raza Gilani who managed to get the Islamabad general seat from PTI’s Hafeez Sheikh. Gilani’s victory was a shocker for the PTI government, forcing PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to triumphantly tweet: “Democracy is the best revenge. Jeya Bhutto!” Gilani got 169 votes against Sheikh’s 164. Seven vo...

Top Story March 4, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf notched up the top score in the Senate election Wednesday with 18 seats followed by PPP’s eight. Despite emerging as the largest party in the Upper House, the PTI suffered a defeat at the hands of PDM’s Yousaf Raza Gilani who managed to get the Islamabad general seat from PTI’s Hafeez Sheikh. Gilani’s victory was a shocker for the PTI government, forcing PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to triumphantly tweet: "Democracy is the best revenge. Jeya Bhutto!" Gilani got 169 votes against Sheikh’s 164. Seven votes...

PTI gets the lion’s share in Senate polls With 18 fresh seats, ruling party’s tally in upper house rises to 26 PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: Barring the federal setback, Wednesday’s Senate elections didn’t spring any major surprise as the ruling PTI dethroned its political arch-nemesis, the PML-N, as the single largest party in the upper house of parliament. This was what political pundits had predicted based on the governing party’s numerical strength in the four provincial assemblies. Lawmakers in the National Assembly and the provincial assemblies of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtun...

As many as 14 candidates filed their nomination papers, seven of them for as many general seats from Balochistan. — APP/File QUETTA: Most of the political parties contesting coming Senate elections from Balochistan completed their final lists of candidates and announced their names on Saturday. The founder of the ruling Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) in the province, Saeed Ahmed Hashmi, was among the party candidates who were awarded party tickets. Mr Hashmi will contest Senate election for a seat reserved for technocrats as he is a mining engineer by profession. Earlier, he has remained a ...