KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement nominated 13 individuals for 11 seats in the Senate elections. Seven general, two women, two minority and two technocrat seats were nominated.

Kunwar Khalid Younis, Kunwar Naveed Jameel, Arshad Bohra, Col (retd) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi, Nasreen Jalil, Barrister Farogh Naseem and Ali Sherzai were nominated for the general seats, Nasreen Jalil and Sheila Latif for the women’s seats.
Punjho Beel and Amir Maseeh for the minority seats, and Farogh Naseem and Ali Shaikh Zai nominated for the technocrat seats.

Deadline for filing the papers for candidate for senate election is 14th of February, they will be scrutinized by February 17 and the list of challenging candidates will be finalised by February 24, for the polling scheduled on March 2.

The elections will be held for 54 seats – 50 seats vacated by graduating senators and four new seats reserved for minorities. The provincial assemblies, which constitute the Electoral College for the upper house of parliament, would be electing 12 senators each.