PPP to challenge rejected votes in IHC.

Islamabad -- The top leadership of the PPP met here on Saturday to discuss their candidate Yousaf Raza Gillani's shock defeat in polls held a day earlier for the Senate chairman's position.

Despite it holding superior numbers, the Pakistan Democratic Movement's candidate lost to the government-backed Sadiq Sanjrani with votes split 42-48.

Party co-chair Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met with Gillani to discuss the seven votes rejected by the presiding officer in the polls for the Senate chair and finalise a way forward and decided to take the matter to the Islamabad High Court.

The PPP leadership also formed a legal team comprising Farooq H. Naek, Nayyar Bukhari and Lateef Khosa to look into the matter and devise the party's legal strategy.

'The theft of 7 votes is a failed...