ECP notifies successful candidates in Senate polls.

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday announced names of returned candidates on various vacant seats of Senate in place of those members whose term will expire today.

According to an ECP notification, the winning candidates were declared as returned candidates on general, women, non-Muslim, and technocrat, including ulema, seats from the federal capital, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan.

As per the notification, the returned candidates from Punjab on general seats are Kamil Ali Agha (PML-Q), Afnan Ullah Khan (PML-N), Aon Abbas (PTI), Ejaz Ahmad Chaudhry (PTI), Sajid Mir (PML-N) and Irfan-ul-Haq Siddiqui (PML-N). The returned candidates on technocrat seats are Azam Nazeer Tara (PML-N) and Syed Ali Zafar (PTI) while Zarqa Suharwardy Taimur (PTI) and Saadia Abbasi have been declared returned candidates on woman seats.

As per the notification, the returned candidates from KP are Mohsin Aziz (PTI), Liaquat Khan Tarakai (PTI), Syed Shibli Faraz (PTI), Hidayatullah Khan (ANP), Faisal Saleem Rehman (PTI), Atta-ur-Rehman (JUI-P) and Zeeshan Khan Zada (PTI) on general seats, while on technocrat and ulema seats, Dost Muhammad Khan (PTI) and Hamayun Mohmand (PTI) have been declared as returned candidates, besides Sania Nishtar (PTI), Falak Naz (PTI) on woman seats and Gurdeep Singh (PTI) on non-Muslim seat.

From the federal capital, Yousaf Raza Gillani (PPPP) has declared as returned candidate on general seat while Fawzia Arshad (PTI) has been declared as returned candidate on woman seat.

From Sindh, the returned candidates on general seats are Sheherbano Sherry Rehman (PPPP), Syed Faisal Ali Sabzwari (MQM-P), Saleem Mandviwala (PPPP), Taj Haider (PPPP), Fesal Vawda (PTI), Shahadat Awan (PPPP) and Jam Mahtab Hussain (PPPP). On technocrat seats, Farooq Hamid Naek (PPPP) and Saifullah Abro (PTI) have been declared returned candidates besides Palwasha Mohammed Zai Khan (PPPP) and Khalida Ateeb (MQM-P) on woman seats.

From Balochistan, the returned candidates on general seats were Abdul Qadir (Independent), Muhammad Qasim (BNP), Molana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri (JUIP), Prince Ahmed Umer Ahmedzai (BAP), Umer Farooq (ANP), Manzoor Ahmed (BAP), and Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti (BAP). On technocrat seats, the returned candidates are Kamran Murtaza (JUIP) and Saeed Ahmed Hashmi (BAP) while on woman seats, the returned candidates are Samina Mumtaz (BAP) and Naseema Ehsan (Independent) while Danesh Kumar (BAP) on non-Muslim seat.

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