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Efforts underway to replace Senate chairman: Mandviwalla

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Chairman Senate Saleem Madviwalla has confirmed reports that efforts were under way to remove Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani from his office.

“A no-trust motion against the incumbent chairman of the Senate would be brought if opposition parties including the Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, National Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) took a collective decision,” he said during a press conference here on Friday.

He was referring to the recent meetings of former president Asif Ali Zardari with Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Mir Hasil Bizenjo.

A total of 53 members is required to remove the Senate chairman. Currently, the PPP, PML-N, NP and JUI-F have 46 members in the Senate, while there are 29 independent senators.

 

 

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.