Polling for the Senate elections under across the four provincial assemblies and National Assembly.
131 candidates are contesting for 52 Senate seats.
20 candidates are contesting 12 seats from Punjab, 33 on 12 seats from Sindh, 26 on 11 seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 25 on 11 seats from Balochistan, 24 on four seats from FATA and five on two seats from Islamabad.
Rangers and Frontier Constabulary personnel have been deployed outside the provincial assemblies and Parliament.
The four provincial assemblies vote for their representatives, whereas the FATA senators are elected by the MNAs from the tribal areas and the Islamabad senators by the National Assembly members.
In Balochistan, ECP Member Abdul Ghaffar Soomro is monitoring the voting process, whereas ECP Member Justice (retd) Shakeel Ahmed Baloch is doing the same in Sindh and ECP Member Justice (retd) Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi in Punjab. ECP Secretary Babar Yaqub is monitoring the process in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.
In the National Assembly, Speaker Ayaz Sadiq was the first in line to cast the vote for the senators from Islamabad. (PhotoNews /Geo News)
