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Peshawar
February 26, 2021
PESHAWAR: A number of candidates withdrew nomination papers on Thursday as the political parties finalised their contenders for the Senate elections from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to an official of the Election Commission of Pakistan, 16 candidates withdrew their nomination papers. There are now 25 candidates in the run from KP, including 11 for general seats, five each for the seats reserved for women and technocrats. Four contestants are flexing muscles for seats reserved for religious minorities.
Those who withdrew their papers for the general seats included former PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar, Dost Mohammad Mehsud who will now contest for the technocrat seat, PTI loyalist Najiullah Khattak, Nasrullah Wazir who is father of PTI MPA from South Waziristan, Naseerullah Wazir, Mohammad Rizwan, former MNA Hamidul Haq, Shakeel Afridi and Meena Khan Afridi. Most of them are from PTI and were hoping to get the party ticket to contest for the Senate sea
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2075
Lahore, February 20
Pakistan Muslim League (N) vice president Maryam Nawaz on Saturday accused the country’s military establishment of abducting over 20 election officials to rig the bypoll in Punjab province in favour of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.
At least two political workers were killed during the byelection to the National Assembly seat NA-75 in Daska, over 80 km from provincial capital Lahore, on Friday, when clashes broke out, including an incident of shooting, between the supporters of the PTI and the PML-N.
“At least 20 presiding officers of as many polling stations have been abducted on Friday evening along with the ballot boxes to change the NA-75 results. This incident has the signature of ‘Khalai Makhlooq’ (a reference to the Army and the intelligence agency). This incident is similar to that of breaking into my room in Karachi,” Maryam Nawaz said at press conference here on Saturday.