{"id":247914,"date":"2022-03-06T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T03:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=247914"},"modified":"2022-03-06T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T03:03:35","slug":"five-candidates-in-the-run-for-vawdas-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/five-candidates-in-the-run-for-vawdas-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Five candidates in the run for Vawda\u2019s senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Five candidates are vying for a Senate seat that fell vacant following lifetime disqualification of PTI leader Faisal Vawda, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said on Saturday. The election monitoring body said PPP\u2019s Nisar Khuhro, PTI\u2019s Agha Arsalan, and independent candidates Ali Ahmed, Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, and Mukhtiar Damrah will take part in a by-election on the vacant general seat in the Senate from Sindh. Polling for the by-election will take place from 9am till 6pm on March 9, Wednesday. On Feb 9, the commission disqualified Vawda for lifetime under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution. An ECP bench, led by Chief Election Commissioner Faisal Sultan Raja, disqualified Vawda for concealing his dual nationality with a direction to return the salary and other benefits he had received as a minister and a National Assembly member within two months. He was also de-notified as a senator. DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Five candidates are vying for a Senate seat that fell vacant following lifetime disqualification of PTI leader Faisal Vawda, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said on Saturday. The election monitoring body said PPP\u2019s Nisar Khuhro, PTI\u2019s Agha Arsalan, and independent candidates Ali Ahmed, Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, and Mukhtiar Damrah will take part in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five candidates in the run for Vawda\u2019s senate seat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/five-candidates-in-the-run-for-vawdas-senate-seat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five candidates in the run for Vawda\u2019s senate seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD: Five candidates are vying for a Senate seat that fell vacant following lifetime disqualification of PTI leader Faisal Vawda, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said on Saturday. 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