Polling will take place in the National Assembly in Islamabad, as well as the assembly for Sindh and Balochistan in Karachi and Quetta, according to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar, Prince Ahmed Umer Ahmedzai, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, and Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti left these seats empty.
Two in Sindh, three in Balochistan, and the federal capital’s general category seats became vacant.
Having won the recently ended general elections, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri have joined the National Assembly. In the same way, Prince Ahmed Umer Ahmedzai and Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti were elected to the Balochistan Assembly, while Nisar Ahmed Khoro and Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar were elected to the Sindh Assembly.
In the meantime, returning officers have been chosen by the Pakistani Election Commission to oversee senate elections in Islamabad as well as four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan.
Members of the National Assembly will choose one general seat and one seat for technocrats, which includes Ulema from the federal capital, in accordance with a notice released by the Election Commission.
In addition, the Pakistani Election Commission has urged provincial assembly members to cast ballots for seven general seats, two women’s seats, two technocrat seats, one seat each for non-Muslims in Punjab and Sindh, and one seat each for Ulema from each province. These seats will become available when the current senators’ terms expire today.
