News @ 3 - 3rd March 2018

ISLAMABAD: The polling for 52 Senate seats among as many as 131 candidates from all the four provinces, the federal capital and Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata), for the upper house of the Pakistan’s parliament has come to an end, ARY News reported on Saturday.

The voting began at 9:00 am in the morning and remained continued till 4:00 pm without an interruption.

Members of the provincial assemblies and the National Assembly will elect senators on the seats which are going to fall vacant on March 11.

Polling stations were set up in the Parliament House Islamabad and all the four provincial assemblies.

Special security arrangements were made outside all the polling stations to avoid any untoward incident.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi cast his vote at parliament house for two Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) seats.