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Summary Chairman and Deputy Chairman Senate will be elected during the session.
President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the first session for the 10th Parliamentary Year of the Senate on March 12 at 10:00am to transact its business of oath-taking of the newly-elected members and the election of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman.Farhatullah Babar, spokesperson to the president, said that the constitution provides that the Senate shall meet for not less than one hundred and ten working days in each Parliamentary Year. The 10th Parliamentary Year of the Senate would start on 12th March 2012 and will end on 11th March 2013.He said that the President, on the advice of the Prime Minister, also approved the nomination of Senator Afrasiab Khattak to preside over the first meeting of the Senate during Tenth Parliamentary Year.The session would be prorogued on the conclusion of its business, he said.
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