*KARACHI: Reports have surfaced that PML- N may support the PPP CandidateRaza Rabbani for the slot of Chairman Senate. *
*Raza Rabbani is the current Chairman Senate hailing from PPP and hissupport from PML N carries significant meaning for General Elections 2018. *
*Has PPP and PML N have patched up. *
*Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) backed independent candidates bagged15 seats across the country in the Senate elections held over 52 vacantseats on Saturday*.
However PML N Claim support of over 43 Senators through old and Newalliances.
PML-N-backed independent candidates secured 11 of 12 seats from the PunjabAssembly, bagged another two seats from federal capital and two more fromKhyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“PMLN now the single largest party in Senate as well, Masha’Allah,” tweeteddeposed PM Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) won 12 seats in total with 10 from Sindhprovince, while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) managed to win a total ofsix seats.
PML-N backed independent candidate Mushahid Hussain Syed secured 223 votesfor Senate’s technocrat seat from the federal capital against PakistanPeoples’ Party (PPP) candidate Raja Shakeel, who bagged 68 votes from themembers of National Assembly.
Asad Junejo, having backing of PML-N, won the second seat for Islamabadafter receiving 214 votes against 32 votes to Imran Ashraf and KanwalShozab respectively.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had declared the PML-N Senatecandidates as independent in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ofPakistan’s ruling over the petitions challenging the Election Act 2017,which removed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif as the party president.