ECP Training Director General Saeed Gul will be the returning officer in the federal capital
- The MNAs will elect one general seat and one seat for technocrats.
- The AMPs will elect members against seven general seats and two women's seats.
- They will also elect two members to technocrat positions.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has appointed Returning Officers (ROs) in Islamabad and all four provinces for the conduct of Senate elections.
According to a notification issued by the election watchdog on Sunday, ECP Training Director General Saeed Gul will be the returning officer (RO) in the federal capital, while provincial election commissioners Aijaz Anwar Chohan, Sharifullah, Shamshad Khan and Muhammad Farid Afridi will be returning officers in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan respectively.
Members of the National Assembly will elect one general seat and one seat for technocrats, including the ulama of the federal capital, Radio Pakistan reported.
The ECP also called on members of the provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to elect members against seven general seats, two seats for women and two seats for technocrats, including ulemas from each province and one seat for non-Muslims. each from Punjab and Sindh, which will fall vacant after the expiry of the tenure of the sitting senators tomorrow (Monday).
Partial polls on six vacant seats on Thursday
Additionally, by-elections for the six vacant Senate seats will be held on Thursday (March 14).
According to the election regulator, elections will be held in the upper house of parliament as well as in the Sindh and Balochistan assemblies in Karachi and Quetta.
These general category seats fell vacant in the federal capital, two in Sindh and three in Balochistan when the senators resigned their seats, following their election as members of the National Assembly and the provincial assemblies of Sindh and Balochistan.
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri have joined the lower house of parliament after winning the recently concluded general elections.
Similarly, Nisar Ahmed Khoro and Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar were elected members of the Sindh Assembly, while Prince Ahmed Umer Ahmedzai and Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti became members of the Balochistan Assembly.
