Peshawar Finance Advisor Shaukat Tareen elected Member Senate.

Finance Advisor Shaukat Tareen was elected Senator with 87 votes while 9 votes were rejected.

ANP and JUI-F candidates got 13 votes each.

Election Polling for the took place in the old hall of the Provincial Assembly which continued till 4 pm.

KP Health Minister Timur Jhagra, four votes were rejected in the polls for the vacant Senate seat and five members could not cast their votes for some reason.

The PTI had fielded Ayub Afridi from the Senate seat and given the ticket to Shaukat Tareen while ANP’s Shaukat Amirzada was contesting in front of the finance adviser, PPP’s Muhammad Saeed and JUI-F’s Zahir Shah.