Senate elections: Papers of Raja Zafarul Haq, Pervez Rashid approved

ISLAMABAD: During the last day of scrutiny of nomination papers for the Senate elections, papers of Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz's (PML-N) Raja Zafarul Haq, Pervez Rashid, and Abdul Qayyum were approved.

Appeals against rejection or acceptance of papers will be heard from February 23-24.

On February 19, the first day of scrutiny, papers for 12 candidates were approved while two were rejected.

The office of the Punjab Election Commission was the centre of a lot of hustle and bustle as the process for the scrutiny began.

The candidates whose nomination papers were approved included PML-N's Mushahidullah Khan, Chaudhary Tanveer, Ghous Mohammad Niazi, Nihal Hashmi, Khawaja Mehmood Ahmed, Saleem Zia, Malik Nosheer, Najma Hameed, Kiran Dar, Ayesha Raza Farooq.

Papers for the Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) Nadeem Afzal Chan and Sarwat Malik were also approved.

Nomination papers for independent candidates Malik Abdul Rehman and Sarfaraz Qureshi were rejected, while objections had been raised on papers of Raja Zafarul Haq, Pervez Rashid, and Abdul Qayyum.