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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PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) here on Wednesday announced seat adjustment in the province for the upcoming Senate polls.
BAP has four lawmakers in the provincial assembly. They joined the party after winning elections from tribal districts as independent candidates.
Addressing a press conference in the civil secretariat, provincial government spokesperson Kamran Khan Bangash, Minister for Local Government Akbar Ayub Khan and BAP leader Bilawal Afridi announced the seat adjustment agreement.
Mr Bangash said that PTI would field five candidates for general seats from the province while for the sixth seat his party would support BAP’s Senator Taj Mohammad Afridi. He said that in return, BAP would support PTI candidates for female, technocrats and minorities seats.