QUETTA, Sept 28: The central leadership of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League has nominated Mohammad Rahim Kakar as its candidate for the post of nazim Quetta City District. Mr Kakar is former nazim of Quetta.

The ruling PML’s Secretary General Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed made this announcement in a Press Conference at Quetta Airport on Wednesday.

He had a brief visit to Quetta and held a meeting with party leaders and all the three workers who had filed nomination papers for this post.

Earlier he informed party’s provincial leadership and candidates of the decision taken by the party’s high command.

He said that the party had chosen Jamal Lango for the post of naib nazim Quetta City District while candidates for the posts of nazims and naib nazims of Zarghoon and Chiltan towns would be finalised by the provincial leadership.

“It is a decision of the party’s central leadership and it has also been conveyed to all the candidates of the party,” Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed said. He said that PML was a big party and difference of opinion could not be ruled not out regarding decision of the leadership.

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