The PPP has filed nomination papers for its candidate Asif Ali Zardari for the March 9 presidential election and announced that it would approach all parliamentary groups including the MQM-P to get their support for the PPP-Parliamentarian president.

Zardari, who had earlier served as the president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013, is set to run for his second term as the joint candidate of PPP and PML-N for the country’s top constitutional office.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and former local government minister Nasir Shah are the proposer and seconder of Zardari, respectively.

The CM along with PPP’s women wing president Faryal Talpur, former chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Speaker Sindh Assembly Awais Qadir Shah, Deputy Speaker Anthony Naveed, Nasir Shah and around two dozen MPAs reached the Sindh High Court and submitted Mr Zardari’s nomination papers before SHC Chief Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi.

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