ISLAMABAD: Election Commissioner of Pakistan (ECP) has issued the notification of Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tarin of being elected as senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to the ECP, the commission has published the name of the candidate returned elected as a result of by-election to the Senate.
Earlier this week, Shaukat Tarin has been elected as a senator from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The finance adviser won with 87 votes from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. Tarin will now be able to work as the federal minister on finance and preside over key government and parliamentary meetings.
Out of 145 members of the provincial assembly, 122 cast their votes during today’s Senate by-election. Tarin will now be able to work as the federal minister on finance and preside over key government and parliamentary meetings.
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The finance adviser won the seat after securing 87 votes. Meanwhile, Shaukat Jamal Ameerzada of the Awami National Party and Zahir Shah of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl secured 13 votes each. PPP’s Mohammad Saeed did not manage to secure a single vote.
Last month, PTI’s Muhammad Ayub Afridi resigned as member of the upper house and vacated his seat. According to media reports, the government wanted to get Tarin elected to Senate on the seat vacated by Afridi to ensure he can become the finance minister again.
