MANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Friday awarded tickets for national and provincial assembly constituencies in various districts.

“Though in some constituencies more than two aspirants are in a winning position names of only those who sacrificed for the party in its difficult times have been finalised for the Feb 8 elections in Hazara division,” Sardar Mohammad Yusuf, PML-N central vice-president, told reporters.

Mr Yusuf, who is also a member of the party’s parliamentary board led by the PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, said Mr Salahuddin had been awarded ticket for NA-12, Kohistan.

Mr Yusuf said that he would run for NA-14, Mansehra-I.

He said that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would contest NA-15. He said that former National Assembly deputy speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi was awarded ticket for NA-16, Abbottabad-I.

Mr Yusuf said that Mahabat Khan was running for NA-17, Abbottabad-II.

“Babar Nawaz Khan is running for NA-18, Haripur,” he added.

The PML-N leader said that the party’s parliamentary board had awarded ticket to Junaid Qasim for PK-36, Mansehra-I.

He said that tickets to provincial assembly aspirants in Hazara division and rest of the province had also been issued.

In Charsadda, PML-N named candidates for two national and five provincial assembly constituencies.

Ms Farah Khan Advocate would contest NA-24, and two provincial assembly constituencies.

Qasim Ali Khan was awarded ticket for NA-25, Shiraz Hasan Pracha for PK-62, Asad Shamsher Khan for PK-63, Fawad Ehsan for PK-64, and Farah Khan Advocate for PK-65 and PK-66.

In Swat, PML-N has awarded ticket to provincial president Amir Muqam for NA-2 and Wajid Ali Khan for NA-3.

The party also named candidates for various provincial assembly seats, including Jahangir Khan for PK-3, Sardar Khan for PK-4, Amir Maqam for PK-5, Irshad Ali for PK-6, Tilawat Khan for PK-7, Jalalat Khan for PK-8, Azmat Ali Khan for PK-9 and Maqsood Ali Khan for PK-10.

In Bajaur, PML-N has named its poll candidates for the Feb 8 elections.

The names of the candidates for lone National Assembly seat and three provincial assembly seats out of four were approved by the party’s central election cell in Lahore, according to a statement issued here.

According to it, the party’s provincial vice-president and former lawmaker Shahabuddin Khan was awarded ticket of both NA-8 and PK-20 seats.

Similarly, the party awarded ticket for PK-19 to Ikram Khan, while Mohammad Zahoor Khan was named for PK-21.

Interestingly, the party didn’t name its nominee for PK-22 constituency.

However, sources in PML-N local chapter told Dawn on Friday that there was no candidate of the party to apply for PK-22.

The sources also disclosed that all the party nominees except Mr Shahabuddin Khan were unknown faces and that they had no acceptance in their respective constituencies.

The sources claimed that it was difficult even for Mr Shahabuddin to win a seat in the elections. They argued the party didn’t enjoy a favourable position in Bajaur.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2024