The ECP will hold elections for 48 Senate seats on April 2 following the expiration of the legislators' six-year term on March 12.
- Zulfi Bukhari and Hamid Khan will be the PTI candidates for the general seats.
- “Brigadier (retired) Musadiq to contest elections for technocrat position.”
- The ECP will hold elections for 48 Senate seats on April 2.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Dr Yasmin Rashid will be the party's candidate for Punjab Senate seat in the upcoming upper house elections to be held on April 2 . News reported on Thursday.
The announcement was made by PTI leader Mian Aslam Iqbal, who took to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to reveal that Rashid would be the party's candidate for the women seat.
Iqbal further said that the party would field Zulfi Bukhari and Hamid Khan for the general seats while Brigadier (retd) Musadiq will be the PTI candidate for a technocrat seat.
The development comes as the senior politician's previous attempt to secure a place in the National Assembly failed after she lost to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif in the seat. NA-130 of Lahore in the February 8 elections.
Rashid, like several other PTI leaders, has faced legal challenges after being booked in cases related to the violent incidents of last year's May 9 riots, in which military installations were attacked after arrest. of PTI founder Imran Khan in a corruption case.
52 seats in the upper house of parliament remained vacant after the six-year term of sitting senators expired on March 11.
However, elections would be held to elect 48 senators as four seats reserved for the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) had been abolished following the 25th constitutional amendment.
Elections would be held to elect members against seven general seats, two for women, two for technocrats including ulema, and one seat for non-Muslims from Sindh and Punjab.
Apart from this, legislators from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan would elect members against seven general seats, two for women and two for technocrats, including ulama.
Members of the National Assembly will elect one general seat and one seat for technocrats, including the ulama of the federal capital, he added.
The electoral body has already appointed returning officers (ROs) in Islamabad and the four provinces for the conduct of the Senate elections.
The development comes as by-elections are underway for six Senate seats left vacant in Sindh, Balochistan and Islamabad due to the ban on dual membership for legislators under Article 223 of the Constitution.
