Hafeez Sheikh will win the senate poll: sheikh Rasheed

With high-stakes polling for the 37 Senate seats underway, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has hoped that the ruling PTI’s candidate on a Senate seat from Islamabad Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh would win the contest.

Speaking to the media after casting his vote at the National Assembly, he took a dig at the 11-party alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) saying they band together whenever elections are around. Their so-called allaince won’t last long, he said.“These people won’t pull off any surprise. Political death writ large on their faces,” the minister said. They had bragged about ousting the government before the Senate elections and gave the impression that they have already won, he added.

It would have been better, if senators from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan had also been elected unopposed, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed opined. He said people who lose election doesn’t accept defeat.

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Hafeez Sheikh will win the senate poll: sheikh Rasheed

With high-stakes polling for the 37 Senate seats underway, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has hoped that the ruling PTI’s candidate on a Senate seat from Islamabad Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh would win the contest.

Speaking to the media after casting his vote at the National Assembly, he took a dig at the 11-party alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) saying they band together whenever elections are around. Their so-called allaince won’t last long, he said.“These people won’t pull off any surprise. Political death writ large on their faces,” the minister said. They had bragged about ousting the government before the Senate elections and gave the impression that they have already won, he added.

It would have been better, if senators from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan had also been elected unopposed, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed opined. He said people who lose election doesn’t accept defeat.

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Fedral minister Fawad Chadhury clams victory in senate polls

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Wednesday Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, PTI candidate on a hotly contested Senate seat from Islamabad, will bag over 180 votes out of a total of 341.

Speaking to the media after casting his ballot, he said the opposition’s joint candidate would secure 155 votes.

Also Read: Voting begins for Senate elections on 37 seats

Fawad said that the PPP tried to buy votes but doesn’t regret resorting to such tactics.

He expressed the hope that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will take action over a leaked video involving the opposition’s candidate from Islamabad, former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son purportedly buying votes.

A video clip surfaced the other day showing the PPP leader purportedly asking the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNAs to “sell their vote”. Ali Haider Gillani was also telling the PTI lawmakers how to waste their Senate votes.

Also Read: ECP takes notice of Ali Haider Gilani’s leaked Senate election 2021 video

While addressing a press conference along with PPP MNA Shazia Marri, the PPP leader Haider Gillani accepted that he had met with PTI lawmakers last week to discuss things related to Senate polls.

“I met with PTI MNAs and told them how to waste their votes. The MNAs from PTI are also my friends and I did nothing wrong,” he told the media, adding that he will meet them again on their wish.

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Faisal Vawda steps back after casting vote in Senate elections

Federal Minister Faisal Vawda tendered his resignation from the National Assembly after casting his vote in the Senate election.

The counsel of Vawda informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) about Vawda’s resignation from the assembly, which was hearing a disqualification petition against the Federal Water Resources Minister.

An IHC bench comprising of Justice Aamir Farooq hearing a petition seeking disqualification of the PTI leader as member of the National Assembly.

The court reserved its verdict in the disqualification case.

Earlier, the minister’s counsel submitted a copy of the resignation of Faisal Vawda from the lower house of the parliament.

The counsel also said that the resignation letter was duly signed by the Speaker and the petition against him becomes ineffective against him after resignation from the NA seat.

The high court bench had summoned the MNAs record from the election commission in previous hearing of the case.

The counsel had pleaded to the court that the Election Commission of Pakistan had not de-notified Faisal Vawda.

Barrister Jahangir Khan Jadoon, the counsel for petitioner Mian Muhammad Faisal, alleged that Faisal Vawda lied in the June 11, 2018 affidavit he submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) before the 2018 elections that he had given up his dual nationality.

He said the minister was an American national at that time but he fibbed in the affidavit, adding he held the US citizenship even when his nomination papers were being scrutinised.

The petitions seek Vawda’s removal from the public office under clause 62-1 (F) of the constitution

 

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Fedral minister Fawad Chadhury clams victory in senate polls

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Wednesday Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, PTI candidate on a hotly contested Senate seat from Islamabad, will bag over 180 votes out of a total of 341.

Speaking to the media after casting his ballot, he said the opposition’s joint candidate would secure 155 votes.

Also Read: Voting begins for Senate elections on 37 seats

Fawad said that the PPP tried to buy votes but doesn’t regret resorting to such tactics.

He expressed the hope that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will take action over a leaked video involving the opposition’s candidate from Islamabad, former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son purportedly buying votes.

A video clip surfaced the other day showing the PPP leader purportedly asking the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNAs to “sell their vote”. Ali Haider Gillani was also telling the PTI lawmakers how to waste their Senate votes.

Also Read: ECP takes notice of Ali Haider Gilani’s leaked Senate election 2021 video

While addressing a press conference along with PPP MNA Shazia Marri, the PPP leader Haider Gillani accepted that he had met with PTI lawmakers last week to discuss things related to Senate polls.

“I met with PTI MNAs and told them how to waste their votes. The MNAs from PTI are also my friends and I did nothing wrong,” he told the media, adding that he will meet them again on their wish.

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Faisal Vawda steps back after casting vote in Senate elections

Federal Minister Faisal Vawda tendered his resignation from the National Assembly after casting his vote in the Senate election.

The counsel of Vawda informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) about Vawda’s resignation from the assembly, which was hearing a disqualification petition against the Federal Water Resources Minister.

An IHC bench comprising of Justice Aamir Farooq hearing a petition seeking disqualification of the PTI leader as member of the National Assembly.

The court reserved its verdict in the disqualification case.

Earlier, the minister’s counsel submitted a copy of the resignation of Faisal Vawda from the lower house of the parliament.

The counsel also said that the resignation letter was duly signed by the Speaker and the petition against him becomes ineffective against him after resignation from the NA seat.

The high court bench had summoned the MNAs record from the election commission in previous hearing of the case.

The counsel had pleaded to the court that the Election Commission of Pakistan had not de-notified Faisal Vawda.

Barrister Jahangir Khan Jadoon, the counsel for petitioner Mian Muhammad Faisal, alleged that Faisal Vawda lied in the June 11, 2018 affidavit he submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) before the 2018 elections that he had given up his dual nationality.

He said the minister was an American national at that time but he fibbed in the affidavit, adding he held the US citizenship even when his nomination papers were being scrutinised.

The petitions seek Vawda’s removal from the public office under clause 62-1 (F) of the constitution

 

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Pakistan records 75 more coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours

Pakistan has recorded 75 more coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 13,013, on Wednesday.

According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 75 more lives and 1,388 fresh infections were reported during the said period.

The total count of active cases is 16,648.

In the past 24 hours, as many as 6,849 patients have recovered from the virus in a day and 1,561 patients are still in critical condition.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), with the fresh inclusion of the infections in the country the national tally of cases now currently stands at 583,916.

A total of 32,945 tests were conducted across the country during this period. Overall 554,225 people have recovered from the deadly disease so far while 9,055,069 samples have been tested thus far.

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