--- title: "ECP cancels Senate by-election for Murad Saeed's seat after ruling no vacancy existed" description: "Most outlets reported that the ECP withdrew the Senate by-election notification for Murad Saeed’s seat, citing that no vacancy arose because he never took the oath as senator. Dunya News explicitly mentioned the ECP’s ruling as the reason, while 24 News HD framed the decision as the ECP withdrawing the notification and briefly noted the PTI affiliation of the disqualified senator." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/4709-ecp-withdraws-notification-for-senate-by-election-on-murad site: HarZaviya language: en --- # ECP cancels Senate by-election for Murad Saeed's seat after ruling no vacancy existed pakistan · latest filing 25 Aug 2026, 7:58 PM PKT · 25 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets reported that the ECP withdrew the Senate by-election notification for Murad Saeed’s seat, citing that no vacancy arose because he never took the oath as senator. Dunya News explicitly mentioned the ECP’s ruling as the reason, while 24 News HD framed the decision as the ECP withdrawing the notification and briefly noted the PTI affiliation of the disqualified senator. ## Same story from 2 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **24 News HD** — [ECP withdraws notification for Senate by-election on Murad Saeed’s seat](https://www.24newshd.tv/25-Aug-2026/ecp-withdraws-notification-senate-by-election-murad-saeed-s-seat) · 25 Aug 2026, 7:58 PM PKT > The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has withdrawn its notification declaring a Senate seat vacant following the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Murad Saeed, effectively cancelling the move to hold a by-election on the seat, 24NewsHD TV reported on Tuesday. - **Dunya News** — [ECP halts Senate by-election after ruling Murad Saeed's seat never became vacant](https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/969663-ecp-halts-senate-byelection-after-ruling-murad-saeeds-seat-never-bec) · 25 Aug 2026, 5:03 PM PKT · 87% identical wording to the newest filing > The ECP has withdrawn the Senate by-election schedule linked to Murad Saeed, ruling that no vacancy arose because he had never taken oath as senator. ## Part of a bigger story Other stories whose coverage resembles this one, nearest first. "% related" compares whole stories, not single articles — see [what the percentages mean](https://harzaviya.com/methodology). - [ECP withdraws Senate by-election plan for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seat](https://harzaviya.com/stories/5235-ecp-withdraws-kp-senate-by-election-plan-says-no-vacancy) · 28 Aug 2026 · 2 outlets · 93% related - [PTI leader challenges ECP's decision on Murad Saeed's Senate seat](https://harzaviya.com/stories/6796-withdrawal-of-senator-murad-saeed-s-de-notification) · 6 Sep 2026 · 2 outlets · 79% related 2 articles from 2 outlets, 25 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.