JI manages to win Senate seat for its provincial head 

PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Saturday managed to win a seat in the Upper House of Parliament for its Khyber Pakhtunkhwa head, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, after joining hands with the opposition.

Mushtaq Ahmad, hailing from Swabi district, was the JI candidate for the general seat in the Senate election. He was the only candidate fielded by the party for the Senate as it had only seven MPAs in the provincial assembly.

The opposition parties supported the JI candidate on the general seat and in return the JI lawmakers backed the opposition’s nominees for the reserved seats for the technocrats and women.

Mushtaq Ahmad bagged seven votes, all given to him by his party members in the KP Assembly. Opposition parties had placed his name on the second priority which helped him win the seat in the Senate.