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Senate Session To Elect Chairman, Deputy Chairman Tomorrow

Islamabad (March 11, 2018): Special senate session to elect its new Chairman and Deputy Chairman will be held tomorrow. President Mamnoon Hussain has already summoned a session of the Senate on March 12, in which newly-elected senators will also sworn in at 10am.

Nomination papers for Senate chairman and deputy chairman will then be submitted in the Senate Secretariat at noon.

The nomination papers will be reviewed at 2pm after which another session will be summoned at 4pm the same day, when the chairman and deputy chairman will be elected.

Following the election, the Senate chairman will take oath, and will then swear in his deputy.

After the oath-taking, the session will be adjourned until further notice.The PML-N and independents backed by the party have 33 members in the Senate following the March 3 election.

If you add the party’s allies — five senators of the PkMAP, five of NP, four of JUI-F and one from PML-Functional — then the count goes up to 48.

The PML-N and its allies claim that they are ahead in the numbers game, and are certain of support from five senators of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), two of eight from FATA and one each from the Awami National Party and Balochistan National Party (Mengal).

If the PML-N indeed gets support from these nine senators, then the party will have a total of 57 members. A total of 53 votes are needed to win the posts.

Earlier, PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday announced to support Independent candidate from Balochistan Sadiq Sanjrani as chairman of the senate along with support for PPP candidate on deputy chairman slot.

“I have promised the chief minister Balochistan to support PPP candidate on deputy chairman senate slot,” he said.

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The chief minister said that the decision from Imran Khan would further strengthen the federation  and also asked Imran Khan to establish a cancer hospital in Quetta also.

Khan thanked the arrival of the senators and the chief minister at his Bani Gala residence and said that the decision taken by him was aimed at taking out of the box decisions to end the sense of deprivation among the Baloch people.

He also assured to put forward the proposal to establish Shaukat Khanum hospital in Quetta before the board of the hospital.

Meanwhile, Paktunkhua Milli Awami Party Leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai on Sunday proposed names for Mushahid ullah and Pervez Rasheed of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz for the slot of chairman and deputy chairman Senate.

The PkMAP assured the PML-N Leader Nawaz Sharif of his complete support for the PML-N candidate for chairman and deputy chairman senate.

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Nawaz Sharif assured Achakzai of consulting with his party leaders over the nominations made by the PkMAP leader.

It is pertinent to mention here that PML-N lifetime Quaid Nawaz Sharif has summoned the consultative meeting of his party to decide on the name of PML-N and allies candidate for the chairman and deputy chairman Senate today.

The PML-N Leader Mushahid Ullah Khan had already announced that the ruling party had exceeded the votes it require for the Senate chairman election. “We have the support of around 57 votes in the Senate,” he said on Saturday after the PML-N and allies consultative meeting.

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Earlier, Nawaz had proposed that the party would support Rabbani’s re-election as Senate chairman but the PPP dismissed the move.

After a meeting of the PML-N and its allies on Saturday, National Party (NP) leader Hasil Bizenjo had said that apart from his party, the PML-N had the support of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP).

The NP leader added that there had been no discussions in the meeting for appointing the chairman from Balochistan. “This is not an issue of Balochistan, rather an issue for the allied parties,” he had said.

Moreover, the PPP will also hold consultations today to finalise their nominees for the Senate posts.

Sources said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will consul party leaders to finalise their candidates.

 

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