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| All 11 Senate candidates from Balochistan elected unopposed |
| 2024-03-29 |
| Just like blue cities. [GEO.TV] There will be no polling for the 11 Senate seats from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... as all the candidates — seven on general seats and two each on seats reserved for women and technocrats — have been elected unopposed ahead of the election slated for April 2. Nine senators were declared winners a day earlier while the result was awaited on the two remaining technocrat seats. According to a Geo News report, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... Fazl's (JUI-F) Maulana Abdul Wasey and Pakistain Peoples Party’s (PPP) Bilal Khan Mandokhail have been elected on the reserved seats. Moreover, the other nine candidates elected unopposed to the Senate from Balochistan include former caretaker prime minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar who has returned to the upper house as an independent candidate on a general seat. Similarly, Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Syed Nasir and Agha Shahzeb Durrani, PPP’s Sardar Umar Gorgej, National Party’s John Buledi, Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... 's Aimal Wali and JUI-F’s Ahmed Khan have also been elected on general seats. Additionally, PML-N and PPP have secured the two women's seats that were up for grabs in the province. The candidates that have been elected are PML-N’s Rahat Jamali and PPP’s Hasna Bibi. In total, PML-N and PPP managed to get 3 seats each while JUI-F got two and ANP and National Party bagged one seat each. |
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