{"id":89850,"date":"2025-10-30T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=89850"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:58:24","slug":"senate-by-election-pti-backed-candidate-khurram-zeeshan-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/senate-by-election-pti-backed-candidate-khurram-zeeshan-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate by-election: PTI-backed candidate Khurram Zeeshan wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-govt-decides-to-ban-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf-pti\/\"> Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<\/a> candidate Khurram Zeeshan has won the by-election on the general seat of the Senate with a clear majority.<\/p>\n<p>According to the unconfirmed and unofficial results, PTI candidate Khurram Zeeshan secured 91 votes while opposition candidate Taj Afridi secured 45 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Voting began at 9:30 am and continued till 4 pm. Provincial Election Commissioner Saeed Gul acted as the returning officer for the polling.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 145 members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly are eligible to vote for this Senate seat, while a minimum of 75 votes were required for victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Khurram Zeeshan has won the by-election on the general seat of the Senate with a clear majority. According to the unconfirmed and unofficial results, PTI candidate Khurram Zeeshan secured 91 votes while opposition candidate Taj Afridi secured 45 votes. Voting began at 9:30 am and continued till 4 pm. Provincial Election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":89851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13841,28780],"class_list":["post-89850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-khurram-zeeshan","tag-senate-by-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89850","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=89850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89852,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89850\/revisions\/89852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}