HYDERABAD, Sept 21: The chief of the Sindh Solangi Welfare Organization, Sardar Iqbal Ahmad Khan Solangi, has announced his tribe will support two PML (QA) candidates in the election.

He was speaking at a news conference at the residence of Syed Shahbuddin Shah Hussaini here on Saturday.

He said he had convened a meeting of his tribe, belonging to Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas, on Friday night which decided to support Syed Shahbuddin Shah Hussaini, a candidate for NA-218, and NA-221 and Dr Badar Channa, a candidate for PS-47.

Answering a question, he said the Solangi community had 800,000 registered voters throughout Sindh and added 15,000 voters were registered in the aforementioned constituencies.

To another question, he said he personally was a member of the SDA but it was the decision of his tribe to vote for Hussaini and Dr Channa.

Meanwhile, Ahmad Naveed, who claimed to be the chairman of the Gen Pervez Musharraf Himayat Committee, Dr Imtiaz Ali Abbasi, an NGO activist, also announced their support for Hussaini.

A PML (N) leader, Kanwar Jaffar, also announced he had joined the PML (QA).