Ayub Afridi, a PTI senator from KP, vacated the seat to make space for PM Advisor on Finance Shaukat Tarin to join the Senate.
Voting for the vacant seat in the Senate for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is started, with provincial Finance Minister Tamoor Salim Jhagra casting the first vote in the province.
According to reports, voting for the vacant Senate seat began at 9 a.m. today (Monday) and will end at 4 p.m. The KP legislators were able to vote in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s Old Hall (Jirga Hall).
The Senate seat is being contested by four people. Finance Advisor Shaukat Tarin of the ruling PTI, Shaukat Amirzada of the ANP, Muhammad Saeed of the PPP, and Zahir Shah of the JUI (F) are all running for the seat.
In the KP assembly, the JUI (F) has 15, the ANP has 12, the PML-N has 7, the PPP has 5, the Balochistan Awami Party has 4, and there are four independents.
The Jamaat-i-Islami received three votes, while the PML-Q received one.
The Senate candidate must receive more than 50% of the votes cast by the assembly’s 145 members.
Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin is a Pakistani politician and banker who served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2010 in the Gillani cabinet also and worked with the help of the Pakistan People’s Party’s cabinet members. On 27 December 2021, he appointed the Finance Minister of Pakistan again, replacing the recently appointed Hammad Azhar after a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan. He is a Member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018.
