{"id":9013,"date":"2024-03-14T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:27:41","slug":"senate-by-election-polling-underway-on-six-vacant-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=9013","title":{"rendered":"Senate by-election \u00a0polling underway \u00a0on six vacant seats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-14-at-1.53.23-PM-1024x634.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-14-at-1.53.23-PM-1024x634.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-14-at-1.53.23-PM-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-14-at-1.53.23-PM-768x476.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-14-at-1.53.23-PM-1536x951.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-14-at-1.53.23-PM.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad&nbsp; :&nbsp; Polling for by-elections on six vacant Senate seats is underway at National Assembly as well as at Sindh and Balochistan assemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The polling is being held on one vacant seat in Islamabad, two General Seats from Sindh while three vacant seats from Balochistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At National Assembly, Islamabad, PPP candidate Yousaf Raza Gilani and Sunni Ittehad Council&#8217;s candidate Chaudhary Ilyas Mehrban are in the race for the seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sindh Assembly, both these seats had fallen vacant due to the resignation of Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Jam Mehtab Dahar of Pakistan Peoples Party. Four candidates, two each from Pakistan People&#8217;s party and Sunni Ittehad council are contesting the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Balochistan, three seats fell vacated due to resignation of Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti, Prince Ahmad Umar Ahmadzai and Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri while twelve candidates are vying for the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad&nbsp; :&nbsp; Polling for by-elections on six vacant Senate seats is underway at National Assembly as well as at Sindh and Balochistan assemblies. The polling is being held on one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[55,52,53],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-politics","tag-national-assembly-of-pakistan","tag-senate-of-pakistan","tag-senate-standing-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}