November 28, 2007	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 17, 1428

KOHAT, Nov 27: Nineteen candidates for one National Assembly seat (NA-14) and 34 for three provincial assembly seats (PF-37, 38, 39) in Kohat have filed their nomination papers for the coming general elections.

Former parliamentarians who were denied tickets by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) and the Pakistan People’s Party have filed their nomination papers as independent candidates.

According to final lists obtained from the concerned returning officers on Tuesday, 27 people filed papers for the NA seat from six frontier regions of the NWFP in the office of district revenue officer, Kohat, Abdul Jabbar.

The prominent among those are former MNA Javed Ibraheem Paracha (PML-N), Maulana Abdul Hai (JUI-F), Hafiz Inamullah (Tehrik-i-Insaaf), Abdur Ruaf advocate (PPP) and Pir Dilawar Shah (ANP). Former MNA Mufti Ibrar Sultan, former district nazim Engr Malik Asad, Hafiz Khurshid and former law minister Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani filed papers as independent candidates.

Engr Malik Asad refused to take the PPP ticket because the party did not give the ticket to Qalb-i-Hassan, a former MPA from the ANP.

Ten candidates filed nomination papers for PF-37, 16 for PF-38 and eight for PF-39. Prominent among those were former PHC chief justice Syed Ibn-i-Ali (PPP) Pir Mutahir Shah (JI), former MPA Syed Qalb-i-Hassan (independent) and Ustarzai nazim Mahtab-ul-Hassan (independent) for PF-38.

Similarly for PF-39, Dr Iqbal Fana (JI) and former MPA Shad and Mohammad Khan (independents) have filed their papers.

Pir Faheem (JI), Fazal Raheem (JUI-F) and Nawab Aurangzeb (Independent) have filed papers for PF-37. Former MPA Shaukat Habib has filed papers as both independent and Awami National Party candidate from PF-37.

Bilal Shinwari, Imtiaz Haider, former MPA Shad Mohammad Khan and Abdul Qadir Khattak have filed nomination papers as independent candidates for PF-37.