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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 Awami National Party (ANP) won one seat. Another successful candidate had the support of the BAP.
Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) president Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal has claimed that the opposition alliance will give surprise to the BAP-led coalition government in the province. AFP/File
QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) president Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal has claimed that the opposition alliance will give surprise to the BAP-led coalition government in the province.
He said he had doubts about the victory of the ruling parties in the Senate election.
He was speaking at a press conference on Tuesday in which former senator Nasima Ehsan Shah announced her decision to join the BNP-M. She belongs to the Pakistan National Party headed by her husband MPA Syed Ehsan Shah and has filed her nomination papers for contesting the Senate election on a women’s reserved seat.
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Spokesman for the Balochistan government, Liaquat Shahwani said in his tweet that Mr Agha had withdrawn from the contest in favour of the BAP.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.
25 candidates submit Senate nomination papers
With February 14 being the last day for the submission
QUETTA:
25 candidates from Balochistan have submitted their nomination papers for the upcoming Senate elections up till now, according to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Nomination papers of Saeed Ahmed Hashmi, the founder of Balochistan Awami Party, Sajid Tareen Advocate of Balochistan National Party Mengal, Samina Ehsan of Pakistan National Party, Samina Mumtaz, Kashifa Gichki and three other candidates of BAP were submitted for the technocrat seats to Returning Officer Abdul Razzaq in the office of the provincial election commission.
Shania Khan submitted her nomination papers for the reserved women’s seat. So far, 10 candidates have filed nomination papers for general seats, four for technocrats and clerics, six for women and five for minority seats.