ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced candidates for Senate election which are slated to take place on April 2.
PTI founder Imran Khan approvesed names of PTI candidates for Senate election
According to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Sanam Javed is contesting for the women's seat from Punjab in the Senate while Hamid Khan, Zulfi Bukhari and Yasmin Rashid will contest the general seat from Punjab.
Ayesha Bano and Rubina Naz are candidates for women's seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azam Swati and Arshad Hussain are candidates for technocrat seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Murad Saeed, Faisal Javed Khan, Mirza Mohammad Afridi, Irfan Saleem and Khurram Zeeshan are candidates for the general seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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.
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Earlier, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has submitted his papers for the Senate election on Saturday.
Similarly, Pervez Rasheed, Mustafa Ramday and Ahad Cheema have submitted nomination papers from Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz(PML-N) in which former senator Pervez Rasheed has submitted papers for the general seat and Mustafa Ramday has submitted the papers for the technocrat seat.
