Pakistan PM Imran to take fresh vote of confidence after upset in Senate election.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan will take a fresh vote of confidence from the National Assembly, his cabinet announced on Thursday.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will move a summary to the president to summon a new session of the lower house of Parliament, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said while addressing a press conference along with federal ministers Shafqat Mehmood, Asad Umar, Shireen Mazari, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Syed Ali Haider Zaidi, Hammad Azhar and others in Islamabad.

The decision came in the backdrop of an upset in the Senate elections in which Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan Democratic Movement won the general seat from Federal Capital by securing 169 votes against 164 secured by Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh of PTI.

Qureshi described the victory of Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on the general seat of Senate from the federal capital as a 'negation of democracy'.

He further said that the Election Commission has failed...