News Report
Peshawar: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has won six of the 11 Senate seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while opposition parties jointly bagged five, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results of the Senate elections held in the provincial assembly.
Polling was held for all 11 seats, and all 145 members of the KP Assembly cast their votes. On the general seats, PTI candidates Murad Saeed, Faisal Javed, Mirza Afridi, and Noorul Haq Qadri were declared winners, securing 26, 22, and 21 votes respectively.
The opposition succeeded on the remaining three general seats, with victories for PML-N’s Niaz Ahmad, PPP’s Talha Mehmood, and JUI-F’s Atta-ul-Haq.
For the two women’s reserved seats, PTI’s Rubina Naz won with 89 votes, while PPP’s Rubina Khalid secured the second seat. On technocrat seats, PTI’s Azam Swati and JUI-F’s Dilawar Khan emerged victorious.
With these results, PTI has clinched four general seats, one technocrat seat, and one women’s seat.
The opposition — comprising PML-N, PPP, and JUI-F — shared the remaining five seats: three general, one technocrat, and one women’s.
Earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur succeeded in convincing four dissident party members to withdraw from the Senate contest, salvaging a “PTI vs. PTI” situation in the election for the Upper House.
The chief minister held extensive talks with the disgruntled leaders, which went on past midnight. Khurram Zeeshan — another disgruntled leader — refused to withdraw and contested the election.
However, Zeeshan failed to get a single vote in the elections.
The swearing-in ceremony of KP reserved seats MPAs on Sunday cleared the path for long-delayed Senate elections.
