Pakistan suffered major embarrassment on Monday with elections for the president of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), during the virtual session of the Governing Council of IPU, seeing Pakistani Senate chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani lose to Portuguese MP Duarte Pacheco by a huge margin. While Pacheco, who was elected as the president of the IPU for a 3-year term, got 222 votes, Sanjrani could only get 52 votes.

The IPU is the global organisation of National Parliaments and seeks to promote democracy all over the world. The two other candidates, from Uzbekistan and Canada, also polled more votes that the Pakistani candidate.
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