LAHORE, Jan 22: Former Punjab chief minister Manzoor Wattoo, former federal law minister Dr Khalid Ranjha, former provincial law minister S M Zafar among 18 candidates filed their nominations for the Senate on Wednesday.

As notified by the provincial election commission, a total of 44 nominations were filed for 22 Senate seats from the Punjab by the candidates of different parties over the last two weeks. Of them, 31 nominations were filed on general seats, seven on technocrats’ quota and six on women’s reserved seats.

The scrutiny of papers would start from Thursday.

The following candidates submitted their papers for the Senate on general seats quota:

PML-N: Rana Tanveer Hussain, Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Sajid Mir, Saifud Din Khan Khosa. PML-Q: Imdadullah Tarar, Shaukat Aziz, Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry, Javed Ashraf Qazi, Naeem Hussain Chattha, Muhammad Amjad Abbas, Dr Shahzad Waseem, Syed Kabir Ali Attique, Kamil Ali Agha, Syed Dilawar Abbas, Tariq Azeem, Rahat Masood Quddusi. PPP: Pervez Kausar (Patriot), Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, Syed Sajjad Hussain Bukhari, Ehsanul Haq Piracha, Syed Muhammad Masud. MMA: Syed Wajid Hussain Bukhari, Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi, Syed Wizarat Hussain Naqvi. Muhammad Imtiaz Aqdas (PML-Juenjo), Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo (PML-Jinnah), Muhammad Ali Durrani (National Alliance). Independent: Syed Asif Akhtar Hashmi, Naeem Hussain Sarfraz, Mrs. Nusrat Ijaz, Zahoor Mehdi Faisal. Seven candidates who filed nominations on technocrats seats were:

PML-Q: S.M.Zafar, Dr Khalid Ranjha, Chaudhry Muhammad Anwar Bhinder, Syed Muhammad Ayub Shah,

PPP: Dr Nisar Ahmad Sheikh and Muhammad Akbar Khwaja.

Abdul Jabbar Khan filed his papers as an independent candidate.

Six nominations were filed on women’s reserved seats. They were Sadia Abbasi (PML-N), Sajida Mir (PPP), Rouzina Alam (MPL-Q), Begum Gulshan Saeed (PML-Q), Mrs Nighat Agha (PML-Q), Nusrat Ijaz (independent).