ISLAMABAD : Presiding Officer (PO) Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah has administered the oath to the newly-elected senators for the next six years.

The newly-elected 48 senators have taken oath which was administered by Presiding Officer (PO) Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah.

In the next phase of the ongoing session, the Upper House will elect its chairman and deputy chairman.
As the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the 18 seats in Senate elections 2021 after having suffered a major setback in Islamabad, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) backed candidate Yousuf Raza Gilani had pulled off a surprise win on a Senate seat from Islamabad.

The PTI–backed candidates had won 10 out of a total of 12 seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), five from Punjab (unopposed), two from Sindh, and one Senate seat from Islamabad, according to un0fficial results.

As per unofficial results, the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), which is an ally of ruling PTI won six Senate seats. Muttahida Qaumi Movement–Pakistan (MQM-P) secured victory on 2 Senate seats from Sindh Assembly.

Similarly, Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) has won eight Senate seats, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) five, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) secured three seats, Awami National Party (ANP) 2, BNP-Mengal one, PML-Q 1, whereas, two Senate seats were won by independent candidates, unofficial results show.

The PTI’s tally in the Senate now stands at 25. After eight seats, PPP’s total seats in the upper house stands at 21, PML-N 18, BAP has now a total of 12 seats in Senate, JUI-F five and MQM-P three.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 11 : Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday directed all federal secretaries to visit Balochistan to monitor and resolve the problems of the people on priority.

The Prime Minister took the decision to effectively address the sense of deprivation of the people of Balochistan.

He asked the federal secretaries to pay the visit at least once a month and resolve issues related to their ministries, divisions and departments.

The federal secretaries in consultation with Chief Secretary Balochistan will chalk out a visit programme and keep the Prime Minister’s Office informed in this regard.

Following their visits, the secretaries will send a detailed report regularly to the Prime Minister’s Office.

MULTAN, Mar 11 : National Socio Economic Registry (NSER) survey was in progress under Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) as 1,073,184 families got registered so far across Multan division.

Divisional Head of Operation NSER Multan , Muhammad Arshad,  told  here on Thursday that the NSER survey was continued in a transparent way across the division.

He said that the survey was being conducted at Tehsil level by dividing districts into blocks at Multan, Khanewal , Vehari and Lodhran.

The district wise registered families during survey included 400828 families in Multan district,  267018 in Khanewal, 200626 in Vehari and 204712 families in Lodhran so far.

The survey at Tehsil Shujabad and Jalal Pur Pir Wala was near completion while the survey in remaining areas  will be completed till 30 June 2021.

Arshad said that the people were receiving massages from 8171 (Ehsaas Kifalat) in those areas where the survey has been completed.

The social mobilization campaign was launched for the awareness of the local community while the meetings were also conducted with notables of the area before starting survey at any area, he concluded.

KARACHI : Sindh’s Health Minister Dr. Azra Pechuho received coronavirus vaccine shot at a public sector hospital here on Thursday morning.

Pakistan, in the second phase, has launched vaccination of senior citizens aged 60 years and above from Wednesday (yesterday).The first dose of Sinopham coronavirus vaccine administered to the health minister at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital this morning.

Dr. Pechuho had earlier got herself registered at 1166 helpline for coronavirus vaccination.

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Wednesday announced that the next phase of COVID-19 vaccination will start today.

The drive will begin with the senior-most citizens, who will receive SMS with instructions on their cell phones, he said.

Earlier, federal minister Asad Umar said, “Vaccination will be done in reverse order by age. Which means the oldest person who has registered will be vaccinated first,” Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Covid-19, tweeted.

Earlier, on March 5, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) had approved the Sinopham coronavirus vaccine for the people above 60 years of age.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 11 : The Senate would elect its chairman and deputy chairman through secret ballot after oath-taking of 48 newly elected members of Upper House of the Parliament here on Friday.

According to the Senate Secretariat, the session would meet in the morning for oath-taking of the newly elected senators after which the session will be adjourned.

After the adjournment of the session, nomination papers for the chairman and deputy chairman would be submitted.

Later, the session would resume in the evening the same day to elect the chairman and deputy chairman of the Upper House.

Names of the candidates would be announced during the meeting and later a secret ballot will be held.

The names of winning candidates for the slots of chairman and deputy chairman would be announced after which they will also take the oath.