PTI founder approves names of candidates for Senate election

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As the country is now set to witness the Senate election following the government formation, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday announced the final list of candidates for the upper house polls, which are slated to take place on April 2, amid confusion within the party over the names of contenders.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to hold the Senate election next month to fill the 48 seats that fell vacant upon the expiration of the 6-year term of the incumbent senators last week.

As per the electoral body’s schedule for Senate polls, today (March 16) is the last date for the submission of nomination papers.

Earlier, senior PTI leader Asad Qaiser expressed doubts if the names of candidates has been finalised by the PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan or not.

However, PTI later released the list of candidates “approved” by Khan, via the party’s official account on X, formerly Twitter.