Lahore, 22nd March, 3:50, PM: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has challenged the result of Senate Chairman elections. Baaghi TV: According to reports, Yousaf Raza Gillani has challenged the results of the Senate chairman election in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday. As per reports, the high court has accepted the petition, and IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah will preside over the hearing scheduled for March 24 (Wednesday). According to reports from Dawn News, Farooq H. Naek filed the petition on Gillani’s behalf which named presiding officer Syed Muzzafar Hussain Shah, the Ministry of Law and Justice, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, the Senate Secretariat and Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani as respondents. The petition urged the court to nullify the election result and the decision to make Sadiq Sanjrani the Senate chairman. The petition also urged the IHC to declare that the rejection of seven votes for Gillani as unlawful and thus take him back as a candidate for the Senate chairman. The petition claimed that the presiding officer and the Senate secretary had shown their actions to be dishonest. It stated, “They had unmistakenly allowed casting of vote through stamping in the box of the desired candidate … Continue reading Yousaf Raza Gillani challenges the result of Senate Chairman Elections