PTI-backed Waleed Iqbal and Seemi Ezdi get elected to Senate from Punjab

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PTI-backed Waleed Iqbal and Seemi Ezdi get elected to Senate from Punjab

APP Published November 16, 2018

Waleed Iqbal grabbed the general seat by securing 184 votes, while Seemi Ezdi won the reserved seat by obtaining 183 votes. —Photos courtesy Facebook

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed candidates Waleed Iqbal and Seemi Ezdi were elected senators from Punjab in the Senate by-polls held at the Punjab Assembly in Lahore on Thursday.

Iqbal grabbed the general seat by securing 184 votes, while Ezdi won the reserved seat by obtaining 183 votes.

PML-N's Saud Majeed got 176 and Sara Afzal Tarar 175 votes, while nine votes were adjudged invalid.

The two seats of Senate from Punjab fell vacant after the Supreme Court last month disqualified PML-N senators Haroon Akhtar and Sadia Abbasi for holding dual nationalities at the time of filing their nomination papers for the upper house of the parliament.

Senator-elect Waleed Iqbal and Seemi Ezdi thanked PTI Chairman Imran Khan for showing trust in them. They were talking to the media outside the Punjab Assembly.

Earlier, Provincial Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed, while talking to the media, said that today's success in Senate by-elections proved all rumours wrong regarding a rift in the party.

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Kazim

Nov 16, 2018 12:57am

Good Luck new PTI candidates

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AZulfi

Nov 16, 2018 01:21am

Welcome to the club and hang on tough :) On a serious note congrats to both. If I am not wrong first ever parliamentarian from Allama Iqbal’s family

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Sincere Pakistani

Nov 16, 2018 01:26am

Congratulation to Waleed Iqbal Deserved. However nepotism continues in case of seemi ezdi,sister of JKT. Seats won by PML-N 4 months back goes to PTI, all in all it was tough fight between PMLN & PTI.

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Magnanimous approach

Nov 16, 2018 01:47am

Congrats with expectations for good delivery.

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Saba

Nov 16, 2018 02:01am

Good news

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Nov 16, 2018 02:12am

The level debate will improve with these excellent additions.

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Sceptic

Nov 16, 2018 03:00am

The difference in the two parties's votes was less than the number of votes declared invlaid. Despite Tareen being able to rope in many independent MPAs, the PTI government has quite a job on hand to sustain their government in Punjab for five yeras.

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Ahsan Gul

Nov 16, 2018 03:08am

Very good news. Now you both work for the betterment of the Punjab and then for Pakistan. We are proud of you. Pakistan needs people who can eradicate corruption and deliver for common citizens.

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Saad

Nov 16, 2018 04:55am

Mubarak to both and PTI, well done. In Next year, I think PTI will get some more senate seats and then N League will face the real music.

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Javed Shaikh Holland

Nov 16, 2018 05:24am

My bet wishes to Waleed Iqbal the grand son of Allama Iqbal, he deserve, this young man will show his qualification and quality in "Senate. He is an asset for Imran Khan, also best wishes for Seemi.

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MONIER

Nov 16, 2018 05:51am

Good Job PTI on the rise.

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fairplay

Nov 16, 2018 06:12am

cogratulations to PTI and Waleed, a highly educated and smart individul. make us all proud.

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Nov 16, 2018 07:41am

Close contest

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