ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has decided not to cast his ballot in the ongoing Senate elections on Saturday.
This was stated by PTI MNA Shafqat Mehmood while talking to media persons in the federal capital.
“Imran will not be coming to the parliament today to cast his vote for his other commitments,” Mehmood told the journalists during a brief interaction with media.
In reply to a question over Senate horse-trading, the PTI leader deplored such sordid electoral pacts and said the business is being done under the guise of democracy.
“Horse-trading doesn’t represent the public, it’s merely business,” he underlined.
Senate polls
With 131 candidates in the race for 52 Senate seats from all the four provinces, the federal capital and Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata), voting in the election for the upper house of the Pakistan’s parliament began today (Saturday).
Members of the provincial assemblies and the National Assembly will elect senators on the seats which are going to fall vacant on March 11.
The polling started at 9:00 am and will continue till 4:00 pm without any break.
Polling stations have been set up in the Parliament House Islamabad and all the four provincial assemblies.
Special security arrangements have been made outside all the polling stations to avoid any untoward incident.
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