KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Agha Siraj Durrani has been electedas the speaker of the Sindh Assembly once more.

The Sindh Assembly’s session was initially conducted under presidingofficer Mir Nadar Magsi.

158 votes were cast in the speaker election. Agha Siraj Durrani bagged 96votes, while MQM’s nominee Javed hanif was able to bag 59 votes. TLP’s MPAelect Younas Soomro did not participate in the voting process.

The elections for the deputy speaker are under way and the assembly sessionis now being conducted by the newly elected speaker.