Islamabad, March 8 (TIWN) After facing an embarrassing defeat in the high-stake Senate seat elections at the hands of the opposition's candidate, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), asking it to put on hold the winning notification.

The PTI has approached the ECP with a plea, asking it to not release the notification announcing former Prime Minister and candidate of the opposition benches, Yousaf Raza Gillani, as the winning candidate of the Islamabad general seat for the Senate.  As per the plea, PTI wants ECP to hold Gillani's notification till action on a video scandal is completed. The plea also contests that Gillani's son, who is a member of the Punjab Assembly and was seen in a leaked video just before the Senate elections, should be de-seated from his provincial seat and be probed for bribing the Members of National Assembly (MNA), seeking vote for his father.  The petition has been filed by PTI's Farrukh Habib, Maleeka Bokhari and Kanwal Shauzab.