LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarian (PPP-P) has announced names of its ticket-holders for national and provincial assembly seats in central Punjab.

For National Assembly, it has given tickets to 79 candidates in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sahiwal and Sargodha divisions. Of them two are women (in Faisalabad division), one from the Christian community (in Gujranwala division), one former prime minister and three former federal ministers.

The constituencies and the ticket-holders are:

In Rawalpindi division, NA-49 (Attock) Khurram Shahzad, NA-52 (Gujjar Khan) former prime minister Raja Parvez Ashraf, NA-54 Syed Qamar Abbas, NA-55 Babar Sultan Jadoon, NA-56 Sameera Gul, NA-57 Mukhtar Abbas, NA-58 (Chakwal) Raja Muhammad Rizwan, NA-59 (Tala Gang) Qazi Altaf Hussain, NA-60 (Jhelum) Tasnim Nasir Gujjar, and NA-61 Syed Ameer Hamza Pirzada.

In Gujranwala division, NA-64 (Gujrat) Mubeen Arshad, NA-65 (Lalamusa) ex-federal minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, NA-66 (Wazirabad) Ijaz Samma, NA-67 (Hafizabad) Waseemul Hasan Naqvi, NA-70 Sialkot Syed Ishtiaq-ul-Hasan, NA-71 Khwaja Owais Mushtaq, NA-72 Malik Nadeem Awan, NA-73 Rana Mahmood Ashraf, NA-74 Ijaz Ahmad Cheema, NA-75 (Narowal) Tariq Javed Manzoor, NA-76 Sakhawat Masih, NA-77 (ex-Gujranwala division president) Imtiaz Safdar Warraich, NA-78 Haris Meeran, NA-79 Malik Shakeelur Rehman, NA-80 Dr Imran Rahmani, and NA-81 Muhammad Maalik Virk.

In Sargodha division, NA-82 ex-federal minister Nadeem Afzal Chan, NA-83 Rao Abdul Ghaffar, NA-84 ex-minister of state Tasneem Qureshi, NA-85 Tariq Mehmood Gujjar, NA-86 Sahibzada Naeemuddin Sialvi, NA-87 Muhammad Ali Sanwal Awan, NA-89, Nawab Malik Amir Muhammad Khan, and NA-90 Rana Azizur Rahman.

In Faisalabad division, NA-106 (Toba Tek Singh) Zulfiqar Ali, NA-107 Amjad Yaqoob, NA-94 (Chiniot) Inayat Ali Shah, NA-95 (Chak Jhumra) Usman Nawaz, NA-96 (Jaranwala) Rai Shah Jahan Kharl, NA-97 (Tandlianwala) Mohammad Khan Nadeem Baloch, NA-98 (Samundari) Rana Farooq Saeed Khan, NA-99 Neha Javed, NA-100 Sidra Saeed Bandisha, NA-101 Muhammad Afzal, NA-102 Rana Naeem Dastgir, from NA-103 Rana Mubasher Ali, and NA-104 Basharat Ali.

In Lahore division, NA-111 (Nankana) Muhammad Waqas, NA-112 Shah Jahan Bhatti, NA-114 (Sheikhupura) Sardar Ali, NA-115 Altaf Hussain Virk, NA-116 Rai Ijaz Ahmad, NA-117 Syed Asif Hashmi, NA-118 Shahid Abbas, NA-119 Iftikhar Shahid, NA-120 Munir Ahmed, NA-121 Iftikhar Shahid, NA-122 Chaudhry Atif Rafique, NA-123 Rana Ziaul Haque, NA-125 Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor Mayo, NA-126 Amjad Ali Jatt, NA-127 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, NA-128 Adeel Ghulam Mohiuddin, NA-129 Aurangzeb Barki, NA-130 Iqbal Ahmed Khan, NA-131 (Kasur) Chaudhry Manzoor, NA-132 Shaheen Safdar, NA-133 Muhammad Irshad Khan, and NA-134 Syed Raza Abbas.

In Sahiwal division, NA-135 (Okara) Ghulam Mujtabi, NA-136 Chaudhry Sajjad Al Hasan, NA-139 (Pakpattan) Humayun Sarwar Bodla, NA-141 (Sahiwal) Muhammad Zaki Chaudhry, NA-142 Maher Ghulam Farid Kathia, and NA-143 Ali Javed.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2024