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ECP to publish revised list of Senate candidates

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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will publish a revised list of aspiring candidates for the upcoming Senate elections on Sunday.

Candidates will be able to withdraw their nomination papers by tomorrow.

The revised lists of hopefuls for the Senate polls against the seats from the federal capital and FATA will be published on Tuesday.

Polling for the Senate seats, which are going to fall vacant after end of the tenure of 52 senators in March, is scheduled to take place on March 03.

More than 140 candidates have filed nomination papers for 52 seats of the upper house of the parliament.

Prominent among those who have filed for the Senate polls included outgoing Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani, former finance minister Ishaq Dar, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s sister Sadia Abbasi, JUI-Sami’s Maulana Samiul Haq.

Twelve senators each from Punjab and Sindh, 11 each from Khyber Pakhtun­khwa and Balochistan, two from Islamabad and four from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) — will retire on March 11 this year.

The Senate comprises 104 members – 23 each from the four provinces, eight from FATA and four from Islamabad.

The 23 seats included 14 general seats, four each reserved for women and technocrats and one for minorities.

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