Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) won four out of six Senate seats in by-elections on Thursday. In the National Assembly hall, polling was held on one vacant seat of the Senate from Islamabad. PPP candidate Yousaf Raza Gilani was declared the winner with 204 votes, while Sunni Ittehad Council’s candidate Chaudhary Ilyas Mehrban remained runner-up with 88 votes.

 

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