ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed that all the tactics of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) have failed, Allah has been grateful to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
According to details, Shah Mahmood Qureshi while congratulating Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjarani and Deputy Chairman Senate Mirza Muhammad Afridi on their victory in yesterday’s elections said that democracy has won.
The foreign minister said that Allah Almighty made the prime minister successful as PDM’s tactics failed, he said by adding congratulations to the nation on this historic achievement.
Congratulatory messages are being sent to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman Senate. Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar also congratulated the Chairman and Deputy Chairman.
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The opposition parties are also yet to decide the next opposition leader in the Senate as incumbent opposition leader Raja Zafarul Haq who is among the retiring senator did not contest the election.
The PML_N is no longer the largest opposition party in the house and cannot have a claim on the position of the opposition leader. If the PDM decided to nominate Gilani as the candidate for the Senate chairman’s office, then the PML-N or Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) could demand nomination of their candidates for the offices of deputy chairman and opposition leader.
The decision to nominate Sanjrani for the post of Chairman Senate will get the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) which is now the fourth largest party in the Senate and second largest after the PTI in the ruling alliance.
