ATTOCK, Oct 8: Attock is the only tehsil where former nazim Qazi Khalid Mehmood has been re-elected while the other five tehsils have got new faces. In the previous local bodies elections 2001, Qazi Khalid Mehmood and Shahwaz Khan were elected tehsil nazims of Attock and Hassanabdal, respectively, from the platform of the PML-N. PPP- backed candidate Malik Khurram Ali Khan was elected Pindigheb tehsil nazim while Malik Abdullah Khan was elected Jand tehsil nazim.

Sardar Iftikhar Khan was the only PML candidate who had won the slot of Fatehjang tehsil nazim.

Later, tehsil nazims of Attock, Hassanabdal and Pindigheb, Qazi Khalid Mehmood, Shawaz Khan and Khurram Ali Khan, respectively, joined the ruling PML on government pressure. They remained close allies of Khattar Group’s leader Tahir Sadiq for four years, political analysts said.

In the recent local bodies elections 2005, Khattar Group’s leader Tahir Sadiq, who has also been re-elected district nazim, had nominated Zaheer Afzal Arjumand, Malik Liaquat Ali Khan and Shafqat Tahir Khaili for the slots of Fatehjang, Pindigheb and Hassanabdal tehsil nazims, respectively.