Imran Khan skips voting in Senate elections due to personal commitments
Khan didn't take part in the polling due to other commitments.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has not cast his vote in Senate polls that are underway across the country today (Saturday).
Talking to media outside the National Assembly (NA), PTI MNA Shafqat Mahmood said that Khan has some other commitments due to which he has skipped the polling process.
During his visit to a private hotel, Imran Khan was asked by a reporter whether his spiritual advisor has barred him from casting vote in Senate polls over which, the PTI chief left the place without responding.
Meanwhile, Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said that he will become PTI’s first senator from Punjab.
It is to be mentioned here that ten candidates from Punjab province contested for seven seats in the Senate.
Asif Kimani, Shaheen Khalid Butt, Zubair Gul, Haroon Akhtar, Rana Maqbool, Mussadiq Malik and Rana Mehmoodul Hassan are PML-N candidates from Punjab while Shehzad Ali from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Chaudhry Sarwar of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Kamil Ali Agha of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) took part from Punjab.
Hafiz Abdul Karim and finance minister Ishaq Dar, belonging to PML-N, contested the polls for technocrat seats. Those who also contested for technocrat seats were PTI’s Malik Asif Javed and PPP’s Nawazish Ali Khan.
Sadia Abbasi of PML-N, Hina Rabbani Khar, Andaleeb Abbasi and Nuzhat Sadiq took part in Senate elections 2018 from Punjab for women’s seats.
Kamran Michael and Victor contended for one minority’s seat in Senate from Punjab.
As many as 24 candidates took part in polls for four Senate seats reserved for Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). For 12 seats for Sindh, as many as 33 candidates ran.
26 candidates contested the elections for 11 seats of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and 23 candidates for 11 seats of Balochistan province.
