Pakistan Peoples’ Party’s (PPP) Khalida Sikander Mandhro has won the election for vacant technocrat seat of Senate in Sindh on Wednesday.The seat was vacated due to the demise of PPP Senator Dr Sikandar Mandhro, who passed away in the United States on June 11, 2022 after a protracted illness.
Mandhro’s wife Khalida Mandhro was contesting for the seat as PPP’s candidate. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chose to boycott the voting process, while MQM-Pakistan and other parties also didn’t participate. Meanwhile presiding over a meeting here at his office on Wednesday regarding the Sindh Government project of artisan workshop and residential quarters, the commissioner said that the provincial government had designed this project for the poor artisans.—INP