NAWABSHAH: Mutta­hida Qaumi Movement-Pak­is­­tan (Bahadurabad group) leader Abdul Rauf Siddiqui filed nomination papers for NA-213 and PS-38 here on Monday.

The MQM-P leader, who had his roots in Nawabshah, will have to take on former president and chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari.

Mr Siddiqui will also contest for PS-38 Nawabshah city, the seat for which Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal candidate Najaf Raza has also submitted papers.

Ms Afshan Iqbal Keerio and Ms Zahida Yaseen Qureshi have also filed nomination papers for NA-213 and NA-214.

MQM had twice won the seat in past when Abdul Majeed and Asim Kabeer Khanzada triumphed but consecutively lost it to PPP in 2002, 2008 and 2013 elections.

SUKKUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Haji Mohammad Jawed Memon filed nomination papers for NA-207, PS-24 and PS-25 (Sukkur) in Sukkur on Monday and PPP nominees Mir Abid Khan Sundrani and Mir Shabbir Ali Bijarani submitted papers for PS-5 (Kandhkot-Tang­wani) and PS-6 (Kandhkot-Tangwani), respectively, in Kandhkot.

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2018

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