{"id":6823,"date":"2022-03-09T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:41:15","slug":"ppps-nisar-khuhro-wins-senate-by-poll-in-sindh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppps-nisar-khuhro-wins-senate-by-poll-in-sindh\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP&#8217;s Nisar Khuhro wins Senate by-poll in Sindh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">KARACHI: PPP&#8217;s Nisar Khuhro Wednesday won the Senate by-polls in Sindh, <i>Geo News\u00a0<\/i>reported, on a seat that fell vacant after former federal minister Faisal Vawda&#8217;s disqualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Khuhro won the seat after bagging 99 votes out of 101. Meanwhile, two votes were rejected, media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/398054-ecp-disqualifies-faisal-vawda\">\u00a0<\/a>PTI&#8217;s Vawda as a lawmaker in February after it was found that he concealed his US nationality while submitting his nomination papers to the returning officer to take part in 2018 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the announcement of Khuhro&#8217;s win, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari took to his Twitter handle to congratulate the party member.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations, Senator elect, Nisar Ahmad Khuhro \u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBhuttoZardari\/status\/1501527151752978435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations, Senator elect, Nisar Ahmad Khuhro,&#8221; wrote Bilawal.<\/p>\n<h2>Brief profile<\/h2>\n<p>Khuhro is currently Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Works and Services and also on Universities and Boards since 2019, with the status of a provincial minister.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP stalwart has served as the Opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly twice \u2014 from 1997-1999 and from 2002-2007. He also held the office of deputy leader of Opposition in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the provincial Minister for Planning and Development in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Khuhro was also appointed as PPP&#8217;s Larkana district president in 1990, while he is serving as the party&#8217;s Sindh president since 1993.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/mqm-p-stood-in-support-of-pm-imran-khan-khalid-maqbool.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MQM-P stood in support of PM Imran Khan: Khalid Maqbool<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: PPP&#8217;s Nisar Khuhro Wednesday won the Senate by-polls in Sindh, Geo News\u00a0reported, on a seat that fell vacant after former federal minister Faisal Vawda&#8217;s disqualification. Khuhro won the seat after bagging 99 votes out of 101. Meanwhile, two votes were rejected, media reported. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified \u00a0PTI&#8217;s Vawda as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[491,4715,148],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-ppp-co-chairman","tag-ecp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}