Polling for the Senate by-election on two seats from Punjab is in progress at Punjab Assembly in Lahore which will continue from 9 am to 6 pm without any break.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Walid Iqbal and PML-N's Saud Majeed are contesting for the general Senate seat while PTI's Seemee Ezdi and PML-N's Saira Afzal Tarar are contesting for a reserved seat of woman.

These two senate seats from Punjab had fallen vacant after Sadia Abbasi and Haroon Akhter Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League-N were denotified for holding dual-nationality.

As many as 369 Members Punjab Assmebly will cast their votes out of a total number of 371 while PTI and the allies have 194 votes as compared to 173 votes of the PML-N.