[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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PPP’s Ghulam Mustafa Shah elected NA deputy speaker​

Updated Mar 01,
Ghulam Mustafa Shah, the candidate fielded by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has been elected as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly on Friday. Shah secured an impressive 197 votes, demonstrating strong support from fellow parliamentarians.

Competing against him was Junaid Akbar of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), who garnered 92 votes, securing the second position in the election.

A total of 290 votes were cast, out of which 8 were rejected as invalid.

Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq administered oath to the newly-elected deputy speaker soon after his election.

 

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PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif meets JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman​

Mar 01, 2024

 

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'This wasn’t election but selection'​

Updated Mar 01,
Aamir Dogar, while congratulating Sadiq, said that PTI-SIC participated despite being deprived of seats, including reserved seats. Had the results come as per Form 45, my votes would have been 225, said Dogar.

Till this morning, 91 members who were to give me votes were under severe pressure but still decided to vote for me," revealed Dogar.

“This wasn’t election but selection,” Dogar said while referring to general elections and questioned what was the need to spend Rs50 billion on polls if the decision was made by those who counted the votes rather than those who voted. He demanded to give back PTI-SIC won seats, saying party was ready to cooperate.

Referring to the speaker’s offer of reconciliation, Dogar, while paying tribute to Imran Khan’s struggle, said that the party founder has given a go ahead for reconciliation but has linked it with the demand that PTI’s mandate should first be handed back.

 

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Confusion prevails as ECP declares schedules of key elections​

Iftikhar A. Khan
March 2, 2024

PPP leaders Jam Mehtab Dahar and Nisar Khuhro attended the Senate session despite being elected to the Sindh Assembly.

ISLAMABAD: Confusion prevails in upper house of the parliament, as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced the schedules for the presidential elections on March 9, followed by polls on six Senate seats on March 14.

The six Senate seats fell vacant after the election of the members of the upper house of parliament to the national and provincial assemblies.

Article 223 of the Constitution clearly bars double membership. Under sub-section 4 of the Article, if a member of either house of the parliament or of a provincial assembly becomes a candidate for a second seat, which he may not hold concurrently with his first seat, then his first seat becomes vacant as soon as he is elected to the second seat.

On Friday, however, at least two ‘strangers’ attended the Senate session in violation of the clear constitutional provision. They included Nisar Khuhro and Jam Mehtab Dahar, both from Pakistan Peoples Party, who have already been elected as members of the Sindh Assembly.

Two ‘strangers’ attend session of the upper house of parliament

Names of both are on the list of six Senators whose seats have fallen vacant and where elections are to take place on March 14.

 

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PML-N, MQM-P accord to empower local govts​

Kalbe Ali Published March 2, 2024

• Proposed 26th amendment wants federation to establish local govts under Article 140-A
• Articles 140-B and 140-C to be introduced; sixth schedule to be added to Constitution

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N and MQM-P on Friday signed a formal agreement to empower local governments, which will be directly established and draw powers from the federation instead of provinces.

The memorandum of understanding, signed at Parliament House, relates to the two parties’ resolve to introduce the 26th amendment to the Constitution.

The two-point agreement was signed by Ahsan Iqbal of the PML-N and Syed Mustafa Kamal of the MQM-P.

 

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Sarfraz Bugti becomes Balochistan CM ‘unopposed’​

Official announcement in assembly today.

 

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PPP invites applications for Senate tickets​

Amjad Mahmood
March 2, 2024

LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) is officially inviting applications from candidates interested in running for vacant Senate seats, with the elections scheduled to take place within the coming weeks.

The seats became vacant either due to the election of some Senate members to different assemblies or resignations by a couple of them.

PPPP Secretary General Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari said in a statement that those interested in getting PPPP tickets for the vacant seats of the upper house of the bicameral parliament should apply to the party by March 3 (Sunday).

The applications must be addressed to PPPP President Asif Ali Zardari with a bank draft of Rs100,000 in the name of the party enclosed and should be sent to Bilawal House, Karachi, or Zardari House, Islamabad, at House No. 8, Street 19, F-8/2, Mr Bokhari added.

Committee formed to look after party’s Punjab affairs

On Thursday, the party wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja to hold Senate polls as soon as possible to complete the 100-member house, which is currently short of 11 members.

Senate elections are usually held in March every three years when 50 per cent of the members retire after completing a six-year term.

 

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Sharif camp optimistic after Nawaz woos Fazl for support​

Kalbe Ali
March 2, 2024

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman share a light moment during a meeting at the latter’s residence in Islamabad on Friday.—White Star
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ISLAMABAD: PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif visited the residence of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman here on Friday, possibly to seek the latter’s support in the formation of the upcoming coalition government at the Centre, as the JUI-F had abstained during the voting for speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

 

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