KARACHI: The candidates of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) from Sindh have submitted their nomination papers for the upcoming Senate elections.
Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah visited the provincial election commission office on Saturday for the submission of nomination papers. He was accompanied by Senator Sherry Rehman, provincial minister Imtiaz Shaikh and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s secretary Jameel Soomro.
The party’s candidates for Senate from Sindh, Sherry Rehman, Saleem Mandviwala, Taj Haider and Farooq H. Naik submitted their nomination papers to the election commission.
The PPP has issued tickets to 14 candidates, including Sherry Rehman and Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla. According to a statement, the PPP has issued tickets to Taj Haider, Shahadat Awan, and Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar, apart from Mandviwalla and Rehman for Sindh’s general seats.
For the technocrat seat, tickets were issued to Farooq H. Naek, Karim Ahmed Khawaja, and Shahadat Awan, whereas for the women’s seat Palwasha Khan, Khairunisa Mughal, and Rukhsana Shah were nominated.
PPP has issued tickets to Azeem-ul-Haq Minhas in Punjab and Senator Farhatullah Babar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The PPP proposed former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani as its joint candidate of the opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) from Islamabad.
It may be mentioned that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has extended the last date for filing of nomination papers for the upcoming Senate elections. The candidates now can submit their nomination papers until February 15, the commission said in its revised schedule for the Senate polls.
According to the schedule, the scrutiny of nomination papers will be held from 17 to 18 February. The candidates can file appeals against acceptance or rejection of nomination papers on February 20.
These appeals will be disposed off until February 23. The revised list of candidates will be published on February 24, while the candidates can withdraw their nomination papers until February 25.
The ECP has said that the schedule has been revised to benefit the candidates willing to contest elections for the upper house of Parliament. The Senate polls are scheduled to be held on March 3.
