What PTI’s names did Imran Khan finalize for Senate elections?

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has finalized his party candidates for the upcoming Senate elections to be held on April 2.

After the finalization of the names by Imran Khan, PTI on Saturday officially announced the names of the candidates.

List of the names:

 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

General Seats: Murad Saeed (Covering: Azhar Mashwani), Faisal Javed Khan, Mirza Afridi, Irfan Saleem, ⁠Khurram Zeeshan.

Technocrats: Azam Swati, Irshad Hussain.

Women: Ayesha Bano, Rubina Naz.

Punjab

General Seats: Hamid Khan, Zulfi Bukhari (covering: Omer Sarfraz Cheema & Col Ijaz Minhas).

Technocrats: Dr Yasmeen Rashid.

Women’s seat: Sanam Javed.

PTI also has 13 seats in the Sindh Assembly, however, candidates for Senate from Sindh have yet to be announced. In Balochistan Assembly PTI has no seat.

All PTI-backed candidates will contest the Senate election as candidates of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to hold the Senate election next month to fill the 48 seats that fell vacant upon the expiration of the 6-year term of the incumbent senators last week.

Today (March 16) was the last date for the submission of nomination papers.

Earlier, senior PTI leader Asad Qaiser expressed doubts if the names of candidates have been finalized by the PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan, or not.

However, PTI later released the list of candidates “approved” by Khan, via the party’s official account on X, formerly Twitter.