Who will become the Senate Chairman in the elections of chairman and deputy chairman of upper house on March 12? There are many who have been named as potential candidates for the top slots. They include Raza include Raza Rabbani of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and joint candidate of National Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Mir Hasil Bizenjo. By floating Bizenjo's name the ruling party seems to have conceded its defeat even before the holding of elections - a repeat of what it did in the 2008 presidential elections by fielding Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui. The party was quite aware of the likely outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
Five years later, however, the situation was qualitatively different for PML-N. This party, therefore, did not go for another Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui; it got elected Nawaz Sharif's point man in Sindh - Mamnoon Hussain. Bizenjo, therefore, could be another Saeeduzzaman but nomination of a PML-N strongman such as Raja Zafarul Haq would show that the government has smelled victory.
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