SWABI, Oct 21: The Shura of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) has finalised the names of candidates and covering candidates for the two National Assembly and six provincial assembly seats from Swabi district for the coming general elections.Sources said that former NWFP education minister Maulana Fazal Ali would contest the election for the two National Assembly seats — NA-12 and NA-13. They said if Maulana Fazal Ali won both seats, he would leave NA-12 for Maulana Attaul Haq would be his covering candidate from the constituency. The sources said the former minister was also interested in contesting the election from the provincial assembly constituency from where he had won the 2002 election.
The candidates and covering candidates for the six provincial assembly seats are Hafiz Abdul Munaghim and Muntazir Shah (PF-31), Mian Yousaf Akbar and Taj Wali Khan (PF- 32), Maulana Mohammad Amin and Syed Murad Ali Shah (PF-33), Abdul Majid Khan and Maulana Aminul Haq (PF-34), Fazal Ali Haqqani and Haji Ameenullah (PF-35), and Maulana Fazal Ali Haqqani and Maulana Attaul Haq (PF-36).
