PTI loses maverick election bid at Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISLAMABAD: The PTI’s independent bid to secure a seat at a global parliamentary forum fell flat as its candidate, Senator Ali Zafar, managed to secure just 12 votes out of 152 member states in an election for the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians. The vote, held during the IPU conference in Turkiye from April 15 to 19, saw Zafar contesting the seat without backing from the official Pakistani delegation. While Pakistan’s delegation, led by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq and including Law Minister Azam Nazeer Ta
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