ISLAMABAD, Feb 18 (APP): Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday issued the list of 141 validly nominated candidates after completing scrutiny of the nomination papers for Senate elections.
According to an official of ECP, as per details of nomination papers which were accepted or rejected by the Returning Officers, for General seats 77 nomination papers were accepted and eight were rejected, 34 papers were accepted for Women seats and five were rejected, 20 papers were accepted for Ulema and Technocrats seats and 12 were rejected while 10 papers were accepted for Non-Muslims seats.
The validly nominated candidates from federal capital after scrutiny included Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani (PPPP), Abdul Hafeez Sheikh (PTI), Tariq Fazal Chaudhry (PML-N), Syed Muhammad Ali Bukhari (PTI) and Fareed Rehman (PTI) for one General seat. The nomination papers of Farzana Kausar (PML-N), Farah Naz Akbar (PML-N), Muneera Javed Mirza (PTI) and Fauzia Arshad were also accepted by the ECP for one Women seat.
After scrutiny, the validly nominated candidates from Punjab province on seven General seats included Kamil Ali Agha (PML-Q), Jamshed Iqbal Cheema (PTI), Muhammad Khan Madni (PTI), Muhammad Azeem-ul-Haq Minhas, (PPPP), Malik Saif-ul-Malook Khokhar (PML-N), Saifullah Sarwar Khan Nyazee (PTI), Afnan Ullah Khan (PML-N), Saud Majeed (PML-N), Malik Zaheer Abbas Khokhar (PTI), Aon Abbas (PTI), Omar Sarfraz Cheema (PTI), Ejaz Hussain Minhas (PTI), Zahid Hamid (PML-N), Ejaz Ahmad Chaudhry (PTI), Sajid Mir (PML-N), Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman (PML-N) and Irfan-ul-Haq Siddiqui (PML-N).
For Women seats validly nominated candidates were Ms. Zarqa Suharwardy (PTI), Ms Saadia Abbasi (PML-N) and Ms Saira Tarar (PML-N) while two validly nominated candidates for Technocrat Seat were Azam Nazeer Tarar (PML-N) and Ayed Ali Zafar (PTI).
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