PESHAWAR: Seven aspirants of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and two of Awami National Party (ANP) on Wednesday submitted their nomination papers for Senate elections scheduled for March 3.
PTI’s Fida Hussain, Muhammad Ayub, Khiyal Zaman and Faisal Javed had submitted papers against general seats while Azam Swati and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Deputy Speaker Mehr Taj Roghani for seats of Technocrats.
ANP’s Shagufta Malik and Masood Abbas Khattak had also submitted their nomination papers, the provincial office of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in KP informed. So far, 73 forms for general seats, 23 for women seats and 18 for seats of technocrats have been issued by the KP ECP.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) Ali Afzal Khan Jadoon, Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Faisal Sakhi Butt and Behramand, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam’s (JUI) Naeema Kishwar Khan and PTI’s Muhammad Azam Swati had so far submitted their nomination papers with election commission while Qaumi Watan Party’s (QWP) Anisa Zaib had also acquired nomination form.
PTI’s Azam Swati had submitted papers for technocrat seat while PPP’s Faisal Sakhi Butt and Behramand had submitted papers for general seats. The last date for submission of nomination forms is February 8.
According to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Senate elections would be held for seven general, two technocrat and ulema and two women seats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Prominent among those who obtained nomination forms were PTI’s Noor Alam Khan and Mehr Taj Roghani – who is presently the deputy speaker of the KP Assembly – Rubina Khalid and Shazia Tehmas from the PPP and KP Advocate General Abdul Latif Yousafzai. Others include Pir Sabir Shah of PML-N, Usman Saifullah, Anwar Saifullah, Humayun Saifullah, Jehangir Saifullah, Asad Saifullah, Malik Riaz Ahmad, and Zahir Ali Shah from PPP and Faisal Javed.
The other candidates who obtained nomination forms are Engineer Tariq Khattak, Mansour Abbas, Faiza Bibi, PTI’s Rabia Basri and Dildar Khan from the PML-N. Ilyas Ahmad Bilour from ANP and Farhatullah Babar from PPP were also out of 20 candidates who got nomination forms for the technocrat seats.
