Election 2018: PTI unveils list of electoral candidates

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday unveiled the final list of its candidates contesting in the upcoming general elections.

The  list was displayed on PTI's  official website,  according to which the party has fielded 173 candidates for the National Assembly and 290 for the provincial assembly seats.

Amid a tough situation over the distribution of tickets, the final list of electoral candidates decided by the parliamentary board of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, quashing the rumors as who would get party tickets for the electoral tussle scheduled on July 25th,

PTI chief, Imran Khan would contest the elections from five constituencies, including  NA-35 Bannu, NA-53 Islamabad II, NA-95 Mianwali I, NA-131 Lahore IX and NA-243 Karachi.

Other prominent party leaders to contest the elections for the lower house of parliament seats included, PTI vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pervaiz Khattak, Asad umar, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Samsam Bukhari, Zulfikar Khosa and Yasmin Rashid.

PTI vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi   would foray into the next electoral battle from NA-156 Multan.

Pervez Khattak and Murad Saeed will be PTI’s candidates for NA-25 Nowshera and NA-4 Swat, respectively.

While Veteran politician Ghulam Mustafa Khar would be PTI's candidate from NA-181 Muzaffargarh. Zulfikar Khosa will contest the polls from NA-190 Dera Ghazi Khan.

Islamabad

Ghulam Sarwar Khan would confront the disgruntled leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Chaudhry Nisar through NA- 63 Rawalpindi. PTI leader Asad Umar will contest the polls in NA-54 Islamabad.

Lahore

PTI will field Aleem Khan in NA-129 , while  Yasmin Rashid would be party  candidate  from NA-125 against Maryam Nawaz . Meher Wajid   and Waleed Iqbal were awarded tickets for  NA-123, NA-124 respectively.

For NA-130,  Shafqat Mehmood would be PTI’s candidate  while  Hammad Azhar will run  for NA 126 and  Jamshed Iqbal will be battling in NA 127 constituency. NA 128 will have PTI’s Ijaz Diyal

Karachi

In Karachi, Arif Alvi and Ali Zaidi were awarded party tickets to contest the polls from NA-247 and NA-244 respectively. Saifur Rehman will be the PTI candidate in NA-242 Karachi.

Left out  aspirants

There were several party aspirants who have so far been   left out or not awarded the tickets for  July 25 contest, included Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Ali Muhammad Khan,   and Ali Tareen, son of senior PTI leader Jahangir Tareen, who later excused to contest election, while Sheharyar Afridi was included among the electoral candidates of the party a day after list released.

It is learnt that PTI will not field candidates against Shiekh Rashid and Pervaiz Elahi in upcoming elections.

PTI initially  released the list of about 60 percent of its candidates for the National Assembly and four provincial assemblies’ constituencies.