The Senate will meet at the Parliament House on Tuesday afternoon to bid farewell to 50 outgoing Senators whoare retiring from March 12 after completing their six year term.

The session is expected to continue for a few days and will culminateprior to next session when the new Senators-elect will take oath fortheir term of six years on March 12.

Recent Senate elections have changed the party position in the House with Pakistan Muslim League losing many of its key legislators and PPPP emerging as a majority party with 41 seats in the House of 104.

PML-N is the second largest party after PPPP with 14 membersfollowed by ANP with 12, MQM and JUI-F with seven members each andonce the leading party in the House PML-Q, just becoming a backbencher with five members.

Those retiring on March 12, include two Senators from theFederal Capital, 11 each from all the four provinces and four from Federally Administerated Tribal Areas(FATA).

From Federal Capital the two retiring Senators are Tariq Azeemand Wasim Sajjad, two PML-Q stalwarts. However, the party managed toretain its seat from the Capital as its another key figure Mushahid Hussain Syed returned uncontested.

Those retiring from Punjab after completing six-year term are Ishaq Dar of PML-N, Babar Awan of PPP, Jamal Leghari of PML-Q, LtGen Javed Ashraf Qazi (Retd) of PML-Q, Muhammad Ali Durrani of PML-Qand Naeem Hussain Chattha of PML-Q all on general seats. However,PML-N's Ishaq Dar and PPPP's Babar Awan have again been elected tothe House. Other PML-Q Senators from Punjab are Gulshan Saeed,Nilofer Bakhtiar, S.M. Zafar and Haroon Akhtar.

From Sindh, Senators retiring from general seats are Mian RazaRabbani, Syed Sajid Hussain Zaidi and Dr Safdar Ali all from PPP and Ahmed Ali and Tahir Mashhadi from MQM, Dr Khalid Soomro of JUI-F andAbdul Ghafar Qureshi of PML-Q. However, for Raza Rabbani and TahirMashhadi, it will be a matter of moments as they will take oath asSenators just moments after they will resign.

Other retiring Senators from Sindh include Ms Ratna of PPP,Semeen Siddiqui of PML-Q, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh of PPPP and MQM's DrAbdul Khaliq Pirzada. However, Dr Hafeez Sheikh has been againelected uncontested to the Upper House.

From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on general seats the retiringSenators are PML-Q's Ammar Ahmed Khan and Saleem Saifullah Khan bothfrom PML-Q, Moulana Gul Naseeb Khan and Muhammad Talha Mahmood fromJUI-F, JI's Prof Khurshid Ahmed and Prof Muhammad IbrahimKhan and PPP's Muhammad Ghufran Khan. However, Talha Mahmood hasonce again been elected to the Senate.

Other retiring Senators are Fauzia Fakhar-uz-Zaman of PML-Q,Afia Zia of Jamat-i-Islami, Ilyas Ahmed Bilour of ANP and QaziMuhammad Abdullah of JUI-F. However, Ilyas Bilour has again beenelected to the Senate.

Four retiring Senators from FATA are Hafiz Rashid Ahmad, AbdulRaziq, Abdur Rashid and Maulana Muhammad Saleh Shah.

From Balochistan, the retiring Senators are JWP's ShahidHassan Bugti, Muhammad Ismail of JUI-F, Mir Israrullah Khan of BNP-A, Mir Mohabat Khan Marri of PML-Q, Abdur Rahim Khan Mandokhail ofPKMAP, Dr Abdul Malik (IND) and Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali of PML-Q.

Four more Senators including Rehana Yahya Baloch of PML-Q,Sabina Rauf of JUI-F, Saeed Ahmed Hashmi of PML-Q and RahmatullahKakar of JUI-F are also retiring.

As the political activity is in full swings, the coming dayswill ascertain about Chairman, Deputy Chairman. Other slots to befilled by the newly elected Senators for different committeesand Parliamentary bodies.