Former Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Syedal Khan Nasir were elected as Pakistan's Senate chairman and deputy chairman, Dawn reported on Tuesday.
The upper house of Parliament, will convene on Tuesday at 9 am to swear in newly elected members and elect the chairman and deputy chairman, according to a circular released by the Senate Secretariat, reported ARY News.
Reacting to former Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam's allegations that Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut is the kingpin of the 'khichdi' scam, party's spokesperson, Anand Dubey accused the former Congressman of "intentionally trying to malign the image" of his party's candidate.
The petition, filed by the five PTI senators, claimed that the current electoral college is incomplete and therefore 'unconstitutional', as the Senate polls were not held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
"When I started working on this scam, I came to know that the 'kingpin' was someone else. The kingpin in this whole scam is Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson, Sanjay Raut...," Nirupam said while speaking to reporters at a press conference on Monday.
MQM-P Senator Faisal Subzwari said that the PPP had the government in the province for the past 16 years, yet the people were not safe from Karachi to Kashmore.
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde hit out at his former party colleague Uddhav Thackeray, saying that despite holding the top job in the state, he performs all the duties of a party worker, as there is no concept of boss or servant in his faction of the Shiv Sena.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday hit out at the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) saying that the opposition is "Teen Tigada Kaam Bigada," adding that the Mahayuti alliance comprising the BJP, Shiv Sena, and NCP is going to win all seats in Vidarbha.