Senate: then & now - Newspaper
The writer is an author, and a former senator and federal minister. THE 2021 buzz about the Senate evokes recall about the 1985 Senate with particular reference to alleged or actual costs for election. Around mid-February 1985, my far better half Shabnam persuaded me to believe that one was eligible for election to the Senate as a technocrat on a reserved seat. Like elections for the new National Assembly and provincial assemblies held earlier the same month, Senate polls would also be on a non-party basis. But at least three parties unofficially participated — JI, JUI and the Pagara Muslim...
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