Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have formed election committees to contest local government elections in cantonment areas of Rawalpindi.
Since the elections were held on a non-party basis, the PTI is backing the Naya Pakistan panel while the PPP is backing Awam Dost penal in the local government elections.
Sources said that the PTI will announce the names of the candidates in the next three days as the committee has started scrutinizing credentials of the candidates and the party plans to field competent and honest people.
According to the sources, the PPP has also formed a committee headed by PPP President City Amir Fareed Piracha tasking him to scrutinise the credentials of the candidates before announcing their names.
According to the sources, PTI senior leaders including Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Jahagir Tareen will hold meetings with party worker on April 6 while the PPP will hold a public rally in the cantonment area on April 4 to mark the anniversary of PPP founding leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
