ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Kalsoom Parveen confessed on Tuesday tha
t she voted in favour of
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) nominee Saleem Mandviwala as deputy Ch
airman.
The Senator from Balochistan owned up her support to the opposition party in the contest of Senate leadership on Monday. She stated tha
t she didn’t vote for Pahstunkhwa Mili Awaami Party’s (Pk-MAP) Usman Kakar, who secured only 44 votes in the contest of deputy Ch
airman in the Senate session. The opposition party’s contestant Mandviwala secu
red 54 votes to win the seat, defeating Kakar with 10 votes.
Similarly, in the race for the ch
airmanship, PML-N’s contestant Raja Zafarul Haq bagged only 46 votes, whereas the PML-N lea
ders prior to the race for leadership had repeatedly assured while talking to the media that they had enough numbers to sweep the Senate leadership.
Earlier on Tuesday, Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan had announced an inquiry into their defeat, initiating a probe into the Senators who changed their support behind the secret ballot.