(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has finalised the list of party candidates for the upcoming Senate elections.
During a news conference held at the PPP media cell, former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said over 100 applications had been received for candidates for the Senate elections.
Ashraf said Farooq H. Naek would receive the technocrat ticket from Sindh. Candidates from the general seats in Sindh will be Rehman Malik, Islamuddin Shaikh, Saleem Mandviwalla , Gyan Chand, Abdul Latif Ansari and Sassi Paleijo.
Noor Alam Khan and Khanzada Khan will contest the elections from Khyber Pakhutunkhwa, while Nadeem Afzal will be the party's candidate from Punjab.
The Senate elections are scheduled to be held on March 3 with 52 current members set to retire on March 11.
Nomination papers will be submitted on February 12-13 while the scrutiny process will be held from February 16-17 and appeals will be heard from February 20-21.
Candidates for the elections will have till February 25 to withdraw their nomination papers.
Senate elections will be held on 11 seats each in Sindh and Punjab and 12 seats each in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Elections will also be held on four seats in FATA and two in Islamabad.
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