Just over a month remains until the general election on February 8th, and the upper house of Parliament on Friday approved a resolution to postpone the voting in light of security concerns. The motion, proposed by independent Senator Dilawar Khan in a session with just 14 senators present, was rejected by PML-N Senator Afnan Ullah Khan and interim caretaker information minister Murtaza Solangi. There are one hundred members of the Parliament’s Upper House. Speaking aloud as he read the resolution, Dilawar stated that the Election Commission of Pakistan was required to hold free and fair elections, provided that all residents of the region participated. He further stated that the Pakistani Constitution guaranteed every citizen’s right to vote.