ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced to field its owncandidate for the Senate opposition leader slot after Pakistan PeoplesParty (PPP) has nominated Sherry Rehman for the post.

The private news channel reported that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will announcethe Sherry Rehman name for the opposition leader slot in the senate and aparty meeting has been called in this regard.

PPP claimed that six of eight independent senators from the tribal areasare supporting the PPP candidate in senate.

PPP, which has 20 seats in the Senate, will need the support of otheropposition parties to have Rehman appointed. Opposition parties in theSenate did come together to get Sadiq Sanjrani elected chairman and SaleemMandviwalla deputy chairman earlier this week.

Sherry Rehman, a senior leader of PPP, has served as a senator since 2015and was also Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US (2011-13) and Federal Ministerfor Information and Broadcasting (2008-09) in the last government.