LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz parliamentary board has finalised 192 (65pc) candidates against 297 provincial assembly seats in Punjab.

Of the 30 Punjab Assembly seats in Lahore, the PML-N parliamentary board has finalised only 11 candidates including party president Shahbaz Sharif contesting from three seats PP-146 (Lahore-III), PP164 (Lahore-XXI) and PP-165 (Lahore-XXII).

Former railways minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq is contesting from PP-168 (Lahore-XXV).

Shahbaz to contest from three seats

The PML-N has so far granted party ticket to five women candidates to contest from Punjab Assembly constituencies. They are: former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz who is contesting from PP-173 (Lahore-XXX), former Punjab minister Hameeda Waheeduddin PP-65 (Mandi Bahauddin-I), Nazia Raheel PP-122 (Toba Tek Singh-V), Tasneem Kausar PP-217 (Multan-VII) and Naghma Mushtaq Laang PP-223 (Multan-XIII).

The PML-N board has pitched Haroon Bukhari as a National Assembly candidate from NA-184 and NA-186. Interestingly, Haroon Bukhari’s brother Basit Bukhari is also contesting from NA-184 on a PTI ticket.

Mr Haroon Bukhari has also been fielded from two provincial assembly seats PP-272 and PP-275. These two constituencies fall under NA-185.

The selected candidates are: Muhammad Salman Sarwar (PP-1), Jahangir Khanzada (PP-2), Asif Ali Malik (PP-3), Sher Ali Khan (PP-4), Malik Bahadur Khan (PP-5), Raja Ashfaq Sarwar (PP-6), Raja Muhammad Ali (PP-7), Ch. Riaz (PP-8), Raja Hameed (PP-9), Raja Arshad (PP-11), Raja Hanif Advocate (PP-17), Malik Iftikhar Ahmed (PP-15), Sheikh Arslan Hafeez (PP-16), Shakeel Awan (PP-18), Nawabzada Haider Mehdi (PP-28), Maj (R) Moeen Nawaz Warraich (PP-29), Raza Ali Warraich (PP-30), Imran Zafar (PP-31), Mian Tariq Mehmood (PP-32), Ch. Shabbir (PP-33), Raja M. Aslam Khan (PP-34), Rana Arif Iqbal (PP-35), Chaudhry Tariq Subhani (PP-38), Muhammad Ikram (PP-36), Muhammad Manshaullah Butt (PP-37), Mirza Altaf Hussain (PP-39), Rana Muhammad Afzal (PP-40), Syed Atta Ul Hassan Shah (PP-41), Zeeshan Rafique (PP-42), Ch. Naveed Ashraf (PP-43), Ch. Arshad Javed Warraich (PP-44), Rana Abdul Sattar (PP-45), Muhammad Ghiasuddin (PP-47), Abdul Mannan Khan (PP-48), Bilal Akbar Khan (PP-49), Khawaja Muhammad Waseem (PP-50), Shaukat Manzoor Cheema (PP-51), Adil Buksh Chatha (PP-52), Bilal Farooq Tarar (PP-53), Amanullah Warraich (PP-62), Imran Khalid But (PP-54), Rauf Mughal (PP-58), Muhammad Nawaz Chauhan (PP-55), Muhammad Taufeeq Butt (PP-56), Ch. Waqar Ahmed Cheema (PP-59), Qaiser Iqbal Sindhu (PP-60), Ch. Akhtar Ali Khan (PP-61), Chaudhary Muhammad Iqbal (PP-63), Hameeda Waheeduddin (PP-65), Syed Tariq Yaqoob (PP-66), Sikander Hayad Gondal (PP-67), Mehfooz Mashadi (PP-68), Mian Shahid Hussain (PP-69), Dr. Muzaffar Sheikh (PP-70), Shoaib Shafiq Arain (PP-71), Asif Bharat (PP-72), Yasir Zafar Sindhu (PP-73), Muhammad Umer Kalyar (PP-75), Manazir Hussain Ranjha (PP-74), Sardar Kamil Shumail (PP-76), Rana Munawwar Ghous (PP-79), Amanatullah Khan Shadi Khel (PP-85), Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi (PP-87), Malik Muhammad Feroz Joya (PP-88), Farooq Azam Khan (PP-89), Irfanullah Niazi (PP-90), Muhammad Saqlain Anwar Sipra (PP-96), Muhammad Iliyas Chinioti (PP-94), Rai Haider Ali Khan (PP-101), Jaffar Hocha (PP-103), Muhammad Safdar Shakir (PP-104), Rao Kashif Raheem (PP-105), Mian Muhammad Ajmal Asif (PP-108), Zafar Iqbal Nagra (PP-109), Malik Muhammad Nawaz (PP-110), Asrar Ahmed Khan (PP-111), Tahir Jameel (PP-112), Rana Sanaullah Khan (PP-113), Chaudhary Faqeer Hussain Dogar (PP-116), Haji Muhammad Iliyas Ansari (PP-117), Khalid Javed Warraich (PP-118), Col. (R) M. Ayub Khan Gaadhi (PP-120), Amjad Ali Javed (PP-121), Nazia Raheel (PP-122), Sayed Qutab Ali Shah (PP-123), Sheikh Shiraz Akram (PP-126), Khurram Abbas Sial (PP-127), Khalid Mehmood Sarganah (PP-128), Khalid Ghani (PP-129), Mian Ijaz Hussain Bhatti (PP-131), Rana Muhammad Arshad (PP-132), Mehr Kashif Padhyar (PP-133), Agha Ali Haider (PP-134), Muhammad Hassan Riaz (PP-135), Ch. Mushtaq Ahmed Gujjar (PP-136), Pir Ashraf Rasool (PP-137), Mian Abdul Rauf (PP-138), Mian Jalil Sharqpuri (PP-139), Yasir Gujjar (PP-140), Ch. Sajjad Haider Gujjar (PP-143), Samiullah Khan (PP-144), Ghazali Saleem Butt (PP-145), Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz Sharif (PP-146), Mujtaba Shuja Ur Rehman (PP-147), Muhammad Yasin Sohl (PP-162), Mian Naseer Ahmad (PP-163), Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif (PP-164), Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif (PP-165), Khawaja Saad Rafiq (PP-168), Shabbir Khokhar (PP-161), Maryam Nawaz Sharif (PP-173), Chaudhry Ilyas (PP-182), Naeem Safdar Ansari (PP-174), Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan (PP-176), Ahsan Raza (PP-177), Sheikh Alauddin (PP-178), Mehmood Anwar Chaudhry (PP-179), Rana Hayat Khan (PP-180), Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan (PP-181), Javed Allauddin (PP-183), Ghulam Raza Rabera (PP-190), Yawar Zaman (PP-188), Muneeb Ul Haq (PP-189), Raza Ali Gillani (PP-184), Malik Ali Abbas Khokhar (PP-187), Iftikhar Chachar (PP-185), Mian Moeen Wattoo (PP-186), Dr. Farrukh Javed (PP-194), Kashif Ali Chishti (PP-195), Khizar Hayat Khagga (PP-196), Malik Nadeem Kamran (PP-197), Malik Arshad (PP-198), Naveed Aslam Khan Lodhi (PP-199), Rana Riaz Ahmed (PP-200), Hanif Jutt (PP-201), Shahid Munir Chaudhary (PP-202), Mukhtar Shah (PP-203), Rana Irfan (PP-204), Ch. Fazal Ur Rehman (PP-205), Nishat Ahmed Khan (PP-206), Amir Hayat Hiraj (PP-207), Rana Babar Hussain Abid (PP-208), Faisal Niazi (PP-209), Atta ur Rehman (PP-210), Asif Rafeeq Rajwana (PP-214), Amir Manzoor Ansari (PP-215), Sheikh Sadiq Hussain Qureshi (PP-213), M. Ahsan Ud Din Qureshi (PP-216), Tasneem Kousar (PP-217), Rana Ejaz Ahmed Noon (PP-221), Mehdi Abbas Khan Langah (PP-222), Naghma Mughtaq Laang (PP-223), Irfan Aqeel Daultana (PP-231), Bilal Akbar Bhatti (PP-232), Naeem Bhabha (PP-233), Saqib Khurshid (PP-234), Asif Saeed Manais (PP-235), Rana Abdul Rauf (PP-239), Malik Muhammad Iqbal Chanar (PP-245), Rana Muhammad Tariq (PP-246), Muhammad Kazim Ali Pirzada (PP-247), Muhammad Afzal Gill (PP-248), Khalid Mehmood Jaja (PP-249), Saud Majeed (PP-250), Malik Khalid Mehmood Babar Waron (PP-251), Mian Muhammad Shoaib Owaisi (PP-252), Adnan Fareed (PP-253), Ch. Muhammad Umar Jaffar (PP-262), Ch. Mehmood Ul Hassan Cheema (PP-263), Sardar Shaukat Daud (PP-266), Ch. Muhammad Shafiq (PP-267), Waqas Sultan (PP-268), Ahmed Yar Hanjra (PP-279), Azhar Abbas Chandia (PP-269), Hammad Nawaz Khan Tipu (PP-270), Haroon Bukhari (PP-272), Haroon Bukhari (PP-275), Abdul Shakoor Sehwag (PP-281), Malik Riaz Hussain (PP-282), Ijaz Achlana (PP-283), Khawaja Nizam (PP-286), Mohsin Ata Khosa (PP-287), Mohsin Ata Khosa (PP-288), Aleem Shah (PP-289), Ahmed Khan Leghari (PP-290), Mehmood Qadir Leghari (PP-291), Awais Leghari (PP-292), Sher Ali Gorchani (PP-293), Athar Gorchani (PP-294), Pervaiz Iqbal Gorchani (PP-295), Sardar Yusuf Dareshak (PP-296) and Atif Khan (PP-297).

Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2018