KARACHI, Oct 9: The Haq Parast Group claimed on Saturday that they have swept polls in all big cities of Sindh, including Karachi, where their candidates have won with heavy mandate.
In Karachi, besides the city Nazim, the HPG nominees have been elected nazims in 14, out of 18 towns, in the Karachi District.
The HPG nazim has also been elected from Hyderabad District, in addition to taluka nazims in Hyderabad City, Latifabad, Sukkur, Nawabshah and Mirpurkhas city, it said.
Likewise, against reserved seats in the Karachi City Council, the HPG panel has secured 40, out of 59 women seats, seven out of nine workers seats and seven out of nine minority seats.
According to details, in Karachi besides victory of Mustafa Kamal as Karachi city nazim from the HPG panel, the 14 town nazims who have been elected are:
Ismail Qureshi in Landhi Town, Arif Advocate in Korangi Town, Mohammad Imran Pervez in Shah Faisal Town, Mohammad Ansar in Malir Town, Syed Tahir Mashhadi in Jamshed Town, Wasey Jalil in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town, Masoud Hayat in Gulberg Town, Hafiz Osama Quaderi in Liaquatabad Town, Mumtaz Hameed in North Nazimabad Town, Hanif Surti in New Karachi Town, Abdul Haque in Orangi Town, Izhar Ahmad Khan in Site Town, Muhammad Dilawar in Saddar Town, and Kamran Akhtar in Baldia Town.
In Hyderabad, Kanwar Naved Jameel has been elected as nazim of Hyderabad District from the HPG panel.
Javed Jabbar has been elected in Hyderabad City, Sabir Qaimkhani in Latifabad Taluka, Naeem Siddiqui in Sukkur City, Abdul Rauf in Nawabshah City and Ghulam Dastgir Khan in Mirpurkhas city.
Minorities (reserved seats): Shyam Peter, Sharif Ernest, Rafiq Saeed, Arif Bhatti, Rashid Khan Masih, Robin Maseeh and Sharif M. Lal.
Workers (reserved seats): Ashiq Hussain (New Karachi), Ahsanullah (North Nazimabad), Sohail Zaidi (Gulberg), Tasleemul Hasan Farooqi (Liaquatabad), Ishtiaq Ahmad (Orangi), Syed Badshah (Site), Zahid Mehmoud (Baldia), Nasir Taimuri (Saddar), Shoaib Akhtar (Gulshan-i-Iqbal), Sharafat Shah (unopposed - Malir), Ali Akbar (Shah Faisal), Mohammad Asghar (Korangi) and Syed Asif Hasnain (Landhi).
Minorities (reserved seats): Shaheen Emanol (New Karachi), Robert (North Nazimabad), Aslam Lazar (Gulberg), Irfan Nazeer (Liaquatabad), Yunus Ilyas (Orangi), Asif (Site), Hameed Shahzad (Baldia), Babar John (Saddar), Shahbaz Flower (Gulshan-i-Iqbal), Arif Maseeh (Malir), Premchand (Jamshed), Alfareed Nadeem (Korangi) and Gulfam Javed (Landhi).
The 41 HPG nominees elected against 59 reserved seats of women in 18 towns of Karachi are:
New Karachi: Afshan Jibeen, Hameeda Ashraf, Naz Fatima, and Rehana Raees.
North Nazimabad: Anila Asif and Rifaat Khani
Gulberg: Khilaat Firdaus, Saeeda Anees Zehra and Tanweer Zehra
Liaquatabad: Naheed Khan, Nasreen Bano, Sehar-un-Nisa, and Saeeda Ambreen
Orangi: Nasreen Begum, Romana Hanif, Seema Tahir and Zahid-un-Nisa
