ECP issues schedule for Senate elections

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued the schedule for Senate elections to be held on March 3.

52 members of the Senate are set to retire on March 11 and according to the ECP schedule nomination papers will be submitted on February 12-13.

The scrutiny of nomination papers 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.