ISLAMABAD, February16 2012: Eminent jurist and Pakistan People’s Party leader Chaudhary Aitzaz Ahsan and senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Ishaq Dar were unofficially elected unopposed to the Senate from special seats reserved for technocrats in Punjab.A total of 166 candidates filed nomination papers by Tuesday evening for 54 seats in contention for the upper house of parliament. Elections will be held on March 2. Members of provincial assemblies constitute electoral college for the Senate half of whose members are elected every three years for a six-year tenure. As many as 51 candidates filed papers in Quetta, 38 in Peshawar, 32 in Karachi, 25 in Lahore and 20 in Islamabad on the last day set by the Election Commission for submission of the papers. The number is high because of the submission of nomination papers by several people as cover candidates for the party ticker-holders. The candidates include PPP’s Raza Rabbani, Babar Awan, former information minister and PML-Q secretary general Mushahid Hussain Sayed, ANP’s Ilyas Bilour, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa chief minister’s father Azam Hoti, Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, former Karachi mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal (MQM), veteran politicians Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa and M. Hamza, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Khan Babar, ANP Sindh chief Shahi Syed, KP information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain and MQM’s Tahir Mashhadi. Appeals against acceptance or rejection of nomination papers will be disposed of by the Election Commission on February 22 and 23. The candidates can withdraw their papers on February 24 and a final list of candidates will be displayed the same day.
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