{"id":73206,"date":"2025-05-06T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=73206"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:11:39","slug":"ppps-waqar-mehdi-wins-sindh-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppps-waqar-mehdi-wins-sindh-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP&#8217;s Waqar Mehdi wins Sindh senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bilawal-re-elected-as-ppp-chairman-in-intra-party-polls\/\">(PPP)<\/a> candidate for the general seat of Senate Waqr Mehdi won the by-election held on Tuesday (today), according to unofficial results.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"248\">Waqar Mehdi got<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/senate-elections-2024-faisal-vawda-wins-ppp-secures-10-seats-from-sindh\/\"> 111 votes<\/a> to win the seat, while his opponent, Nighat Mirza of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), lacked the required votes to win the election.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"248\">Two of Mehdi&#8217;s votes were declared rejected. Nevertheless, the PPP nominee comfortably crossed the required threshold of 81 votes needed to secure the Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"248\">The seat was vacant after the demise of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) &#8216;s veteran Senator Taj Haider.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"733\">Earlier, the voting started at 09 am in the morning and ended at 04 pm in the evening without any breaks.<\/p>\n<p>The People&#8217;s Party, Sindh&#8217;s ruling party, holds a majority in the provincial assembly. With 116 members, and the MQM-P has 36 members.<\/p>\n<p>Independent lawmakers supported by the PTI have declared their intention to boycott the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbir Ali Qureshi, the PTI&#8217;s legislative leader in the assembly, has said that none of his party&#8217;s MPs will participate in the vote.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"733\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate for the general seat of Senate Waqr Mehdi won the by-election held on Tuesday (today), according to unofficial results. Waqar Mehdi got 111 votes to win the seat, while his opponent, Nighat Mirza of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), lacked the required votes to win the election. Two of Mehdi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":73208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28466,246,13186],"class_list":["post-73206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-mqmp","tag-ppp","tag-senate-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73206","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73209,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73206\/revisions\/73209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}