Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday submitted his nomination papers for the upcoming general elections from Karachi’s NA-243 constituency.
PTI leader Asad Umar said that Khan would contest the elections from four to five different constituencies across the country.
Others who are expected to contest the July 25 polls from Karachi include PPP heavyweights Bilawal Bhutto, Aseefa Bhutto and Asif Zardari contesting from there, as well as prominent human rights activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir, who will contest as an independent candidate.
Earlier, in 2013 elections Khan had contested from NA-1 (Peshawar – II), NA- 56 (Rawalpindi – VII), NA-71 (Mianwali – I), NA-126 (Lahore – IX).
Moreover, NA-243 (Karachi East-II) is a newly-created a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly comprises the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Subdivision, and census charge 12 and 13 of Jamshed Quarters. The constituency was created in the 2018 delimitation from areas of old NA-252 and the section of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in NA-253