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LARKANA, Aug 21: The PPP (SB) will finalize the names of its candidates for four national and six provincial assembly seats of Larkana district on Thursday.
PPP (SB) spokesman Hamid Baloch told Dawn on Wednesday that party chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto would chair a meeting of the election board on Thursday at Al-Murtaza House and finalize the names.
The aspirants would also attend the meeting, he said.
NOMINATION FORMS: Advocate Niaz Khtyan on Wednesday obtained nomination papers on behalf of Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto and Amir Bakhsh Bhutto for NA-207 and PS-37 from Akhlaque Hussain Larik, returning officer, Ratodero.
Mir Nadir Magsi, Mir Amir Magsi (PPP), Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, Hafiz Abdul Qadir Siyal (JUI), Ejaz Ahmad Saryo and Ubid Lolaee (MQM) also obtained nomination forms for NA-207 and PS-37.
From this constituency, Benazir Bhutto and Sanam Bhutto have also obtained forms.
Jatoi: Liaquat Jatoi has brushed aside any differences between the Sindh Democratic Alliance (SDA) and the PML (QA).
He was speaking at a meeting in Gudd village, some 25 kilometres off here, on Wednesday where Muslim Bughio announced his detachment from the PPP and joined the PML (QA).
Jatoi expressed the hope that the coming election would be fair.
He accused that Nazims wanted to influence the polls by installing their favourite officers but, he said, the government foiled their designs and posted new officers.
He said it was premature to comment on whether he would be a candidate for the slot of chief minister in case the PML (QA) won the election.
OUTLAWS HELD: District Police Officer Abdul Sattar Detho on Wednesday said that four accomplices of an outlaw, Himath Chandio, had been arrested.
He said efforts were on to arrest Chandio, wanted in eleven cases registered with the Mahota police station.
