Senate polls on April 3

ISLAMABAD , March 05 (Online): – The Election Commission (EC) has decided to hold Senate elections on April 3.
According to EC sources election on 48 seats of Senate will take place on April 3.
EC has worked out schedule of Senate election. The polling for Senate election will be held in national and ;provincial assemblies on April 3.

On April 3, twelve senators will be elected each from Sindh and Punjab, while two senators will be elected from Islamabad. Eleven new senators will become part of upper house each from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
Fifty-two senators of the Senate will retire after completing their term on March 11. Twelve senators each from Punjab and Sindh and four senators from former Fata will complete their term.

Similarly, 11 senators each from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and two 2 from Islamabad will be retiring on March 11. The senators will bid farewell to the upper house at the end of their six-year term.
The Punjab Assembly will elect 12 new members of the Senate. The provincial assembly will elect seven general, two women, two technocrats and one minority member of the Senate.
No re-election on the four Senate seats of the former Fata will be held under the 25th constitutional amendment.