Overview
- Pakistan’s election commission disqualified PTI senator Murad Saeed under Article 63(1)(h) after a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court gave him a 10-year sentence in a May 9 case, vacating his Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seat.
- Article 63(1)(h) bars anyone sentenced to at least two years for an offense involving moral turpitude from serving in Parliament until five years after release.
- The ECP notification starts the formal process to fill the general seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Senate.
- Saeed won the seat in July 2025 but stayed in hiding, skipped the oath, and later posted a resignation in February that the Senate did not verify.
- The March verdict also sentenced 46 other proclaimed offenders, including senior PTI figures, and Business Recorder now counts about 17 PTI-linked lawmakers stripped of seats following convictions.