HARIPUR, Aug 22: All the candidates intending to contest October polls here have yet to return their filled-in nomination papers to the respective returning officers (ROs) in Haripur, though now only two days are left to submit the documents.

This delay in filing the papers has been attributed to ‘complicated nomination papers’ and also to slow candidates selection of various political parties. However, a number of candidates obtained nomination papers during the last three days.

An official at the returning officers office said that for the lone National Assembly Seat NA-19 here, as many as nine candidates had obtained nomination papers. Some of them are: Omar Ayub of PML-QA, his mother Zeb Goher Ayub, his wife Shernaz Omar Ayub and his cousin Arshad Ayub Khan.

Zaheer-ul-Islam Abbasi of the Tahafuz-i-Islam Movement, Sher Yar Khan of PML-J, Ejaz Khan Durani of PPP, Sardar Abdul Rauf Khan of Awami Jirga and Chaudhry Faisal Zaman of PML-N are also contesting for the same seat.

Only two candidates of a same family — Raja Sheraz Haidar and Raja Faisal Zaman son of Raja Sikandar Zamanhad— had obtained papers for PF-49.  

Yusuf Ayub Khan of PML-N, his brother Arshad Ayub Khan, their cousin Zahid Ayub Khan, Malik Abdul Jalil Advocate of Jamaat-i-Islami, Qazi Mohammad Asad, Raja Tahir Ayub, Zilfiqar Qureshi of PPP, Seth Naveed Asghar of PPP-Sherpao had got documents for PF-50.

Akhtar Nawaz Khan, Sardar Mlushtaq of PML-N, Habibullah Khan Tareen, Taj Mohammod Advocate had obtained papers for PF-51 while for PF0-52, Ghazi, only two — Faisal Aman and Safi Ullah — had got papers.