In order to fill 48 vacant seats, the Election Commission of Pakistan Monday announced holding the Senate elections on April 2.
Fifty-two seats in the upper house of parliament will fall vacant after the expiration of the 6-year term of the incumbent Senators on Tuesday. The elections, however, would be held to elect 48 senators as 4 reserved seats for the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas had been abolished after the 25th Constitutional amendment.
The electoral watchdog said that an official schedule of the elections would be issued on March 14.
Polling would be held to elect members against seven general seats, two women, two seats for technocrats, including Ulema and one seat for non-Muslims from Sindh and Punjab.
In addition to this, lawmakers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan would elect members against seven general seats, two women and two seats for technocrats, including Ulema.
Members of the National Assembly will elect one general seat and one seat for technocrats, including Ulema from the federal capital, it added.
