Senate of Pakistan

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The Senate of Pakistan, constitutionally the House of the Federation, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, with the National Assembly being the lower house. It functions as the institutional representative of the Pakistani federating units at the national level. With a maximum membership of 96, provincial legislatures elect 23 each using single transferable vote; while four represent the federal capital. Members, referred to as 'senators', sit for six-year terms, with half of the house up for election every three years. Unlike the National Assembly, the Senate is a continuing chamber and hence not subject to dissolution. Established and first convened in 1973 under Article 59 of the new constitution, the Senate turned the country's parliament into a bicameral legislature — which up till this point had been unicameral, consisting only of the National Assembly. Providing equal representation to all four provinces of the country, it is an indirectly elected body where...

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