Sindh Assembly elects PPP’s Awais Qadir as speaker

Pakistan Peoples Party’s Awais Qadir Shah has been elected as speaker of Sindh Assembly here on Sunday.

According to polling results, Awais Qadir Shah bagged 111 votes while his opponent MQM-P’s Sofia Saeed could on secure 36 bags.

Soon after the vote count, Shah took oath as speaker.

Earlier, the session, which was scheduled to begin at 11am, commenced after a delay. The session’s proceedings began with the recitation from the Holy Quran.

Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani presided over the session.

The scrutiny of the nomination papers for both slots were completed.

Pakistan Peoples Party had nominated Owais Qadir Shah and Anthony Naveed for the slots of speaker and deputy speaker, respectively.

Earlier today, about nine members of the Sunni Ittehad Council and Jamat-e-Islami’s Muhammad Farooq took an oath.

Speaker Siraj Durrani welcomed the newly-elected members of the SIC and JI.