MIANWALI, Dec 14: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate has alleged that Isakhel and Mianwali tehsil nazims and police officials are running the election campaigns of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) candidates.

Inamullah Khan Niazi, a PML-N candidate in NA-71 and NA-72, said Mianwali Tehsil Nazim Amjad Ali Khan was spending official resources on the election campaign of his father Dr Sher Afghan Niazi, a PML-Q candidate in NA-72, while Isakhel Tehsil Nazim Haji Shafaullah Khan Shadikhel was canvassing for his first cousin Amanatullah Khan Shadikhel, a PML-Q candidate in NA-71. He said station house officers of various police stations and a traffic police inspector were also campaigning for PML-Q candidates in these constituencies.

He said the Mianwali tehsil nazim printed pamphlets on his performance on the tehsil municipal administration’s (TMA) expense, adding TMA workers were distributing these pamphlets in the constituency to muster support for his father.

He asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to take note of these ‘irregularities’ and immediately suspend the district government till the completion of the general elections.

SENSITIVE POINTS: Local law enforcement agencies have marked 60 polling stations in the district as sensitive. Of these, 20 are in A category and 40 in B category.