PESHAWAR: Senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Nisar Khorro has been elected senator from Sindh on seat vacated after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Faisal Vawda was disqualified for submitting fake affidavit to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Media has reported that four PTI members in Sindh Assembly have defected from their party and voted the PPP candidate Nisar Khorro.
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Sources said that Dewan Sachal Lakhwani, Muhammad Aslam Abro and Karim Bakhsh Gabol are among the members who defected from PTI. Shahar Yar Khan Shar who was elected as member of Sindh Assembly on PTI ticket also arrived at the assembly despite the PTI announcement of election boycott and announced his support for PPP.
According to sources, 101 members of 168-member Senate voted in the by-elections. On the other hand, Aslam Abro, a deviant member of PTI in Sindh Assembly, while talking to the media informally, heaped complaints on PTI leader Imran Khan and said that many members of PTI Assembly are in touch with PPP. “If PTI had not boycotted the elections today, many members of PTI would have come to vote for PPP,” he told the media. Aslam Abro said that PTI MNAs and MPAs are not happy with the party policy, and many MNAs will vote against PTI during the no-confidence motion. “The PTI MNAs are not happy with their leader,” he informed.
PPP’s Nisar Khorro was elected senator with 99 votes, 101 votes were polled in Senate election out of which two votes were rejected. Khorro was elected as senate after PTI’s Faisal Vawda was disqualified in fake affidavit case. He had also challenged the disqualification decision in the Supreme Court however his plea was rejected.