February 11, 2008	Monday	Safar 03, 1429

GUJRANWALA, Feb 10: Aspirants of the PPP for the seats of national and provincial assemblies in Naushera Virkan have opted for a lavish mode of electioneering with aircraft showering handbills and pamphlets for canvassing in their respective constituencies.

The PPP parliamentary board had nominated Brig Tariq Yaqoob (retired), brother of livestock secretary Baber Yaqoob, for NA-100 (Gujranwala-VI) seat, while Sohail Ahmed Khan advocate and Sardar Ahmed Chattha for PP-101 and PP-102 seats, respectively. All the three candidates are bearing heavy expenditures of aircraft for their election campaign.

Not behind them is an independent group, but not as much ‘extravagant’, which has intensified its election campaign with the help of loudspeakers fixed on vehicles.

Former MPA Mudassir Qayyum Nahara, leading the independent group, is contesting for NA-100 seat while former MPA Amanat Virk and Rifaqat Gujjar for PP-101 and PP-102 seats, respectively.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has fielded Ashfaq Matto for NA-100 constituency, but it has failed to nominate any panel for the two provincial assembly seats.

Former federal parliamentary secretary Rana Bilal Ijaz, the PML-Q aspirant for

NA-100 seat, said that his rival candidates could not change the voters’ mind through lavish spending on electioneering.