SIALKOT, Aug 27: Tension mounted in Shakargarh tehsil when the ruling PML’s two leading rival groups on Saturday locked horns over the issue of nomination for the Narowal district nazim office.

Reports emerging from the situation reveal that NRB chairman Daniyal Aziz and Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed, the heads of two rival camps, are exploiting their political influence in Lahore and Islamabad for getting their fathers nominated PML candidate for Narowal district nazim slot.

The tussle between the two groups has already claimed three lives in the event of the Aug 25 election clashes.

Mr Aziz wants his father Chaudhry Anwar Aziz, a former federal minister, to be nominated for the covetous position. Dr Tahir Ali is equally interested in the post for his father Dr Naimat Ali Javed, former Shakargarh tehsil nazim (also a known atomic scientist). Each of the groups is still claiming that it has won more than 60 per cent union council nazim seats in Shakargarh and Narowal tehsils.

Meanwhile, the army continued to patrol the sensitive areas in the two tehsils to maintain law and order.

ARRESTS: The Shakargarh police on Saturday held a few more people of the two warring groups in connection with the election-day clashes that killed three people and left several others injured.