ISLAMABAD (PEN) :Political heavyweights from Khyber to Karachi are among the 120 contenders, who have entered the arena for the 48 seats in the upper house of parliament – the elections for which are slated to be held on April 2.
A total of 26 candidates are in the fray for 12 seats in the Senate from Punjab and 33 are set to battle it out for a similar number of slots from Sindh.
Similarly, 30 candidates are in the race for 11 seats from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 36 for an equal number of spots from Balochistan.
Likewise, four candidates are eyeing the two seats from Islamabad.
There are 17 contestants for the seven general seats of the Senate from Punjab. They include Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi; PML-N’s Talal Chaudhry, Ahad Cheema, Pervaiz Rashid, Nasir Butt, and Musadik Malik; SIC-PTI’s Omar Sarfaraz Cheema, Walid Iqbal, Dr Shahzad Waseem , and Hamid Khan; as well as Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen chief Raja Nasir Abbas.
For the technocrat seats from Punjab, four contenders are in the fray — Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, Mustafa Ramday, Dr Yasmin Rashid and Musadik Malik.
The nomination papers of Faiza Ahmed, Anusha Rahman and Bushra Anjum Butt were approved for the reserved seats for women from the province.
