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KARACHI, Nov 28: The Pakistan People’s Party has inducted some of its stalwarts in Karachi to strengthen its power play team in the upcoming general elections. According to the party sources, Afaq Khan Shahid has filed nominations seeking to return to the National Assembly on two seats. One is for NA-141 seat which was bagged by a candidate of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the previous elections. Originally the party had nominated Dr Shakir Alam to contest from this constituency. For NA-242, which belongs to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the PPP had originally given ticket to Jameelur Rehman advocate. The party will now decide who will remain in the field in both the constituencies. Mr Afaq Khan will have to do a Herculean job to muster enough votes to win the constituency as the differences within the party, which had played significant role in the results of previous elections, could cost much more to the PPP in the metropolis.
Saathi Ishaq is another candidate who has submitted his nomination paper to return to the National Assembly on seat NA-247. For this constituency, the PPP had originally given ticket to Sohail Abrar, who later filed his nomination for NA-254 though party’s original nominee Abdul Sattar Channa has already filed his papers to contest on that seat.
PPP leader K. Qureshi has filed his nomination papers from NA-257, a constituency in Malir where the original nominee Riaz Hussain Lund Baloch has also filed papers. PPP has also fielded former minister Abdullah Baloch in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s era from NA-240.
Besides, Abdul Qadir Patel who had defeated late Mir Murtaza Bhutto from PS-86 in 1993 has now been fielded from NA-239.
Sher Muhammed Baloch from NA-258, Abdul Habib Memon from NA-249, Nabeel Gabol from NA-248, and Rafiq Engineer from PS-109 are being considered strong candidates of the PPP.
Following are the names of PPP’s actual and covering candidates with their constituencies:
NA-239 Karachi-I: Abdul Qadir Patel and Talib Brohi Haji Zahoor; PS-89 Karachi-I: Akhtar Jadoon and Taseer Khan Advocate; PS-90 Karachi-II: Zulfiqar Younus, Nadeem Bhutto and Javed Younus; NA-240 Karachi-II: Abdullah Baloch and Malik Jehanzaib Advocate; PS-92 Karachi-IV: Muhammed Shabbir Qureshi, Sathi Ishaq and Shabbir Khan; NA-241 Karachi-III: Dr Shakir Alam and Farhan Ali Khan; PS-93 Karachi-V: Muneer-ud-Din Khattak and Rojhanullah Afridi; PS-94 Karachi-VI: Syed Raees Ahmed Kazmi and Jamil-ur-Rehman; NA-242 Karachi-IV: Jameel-ur-Rehman Advocate and Naseer Ahmed; PS-95 Karachi-VII: Tariq Iqbal alias Noor Bihari and Waseem Bhutto; PS-96 Karachi- VIII: Siddiq Akbar and Sohail Alam; PS-97 Karachi-IX: Abdul Khaliq Mirza (Babu); NA-243 Karachi-V: Zafar Siddiqui and Anwar Ahmed Yousufzai; PS-99 Karachi-XI: Sohail Dehlvi and Ghulam Sarwar Korai; NA-244 Karachi-VI: Ghulam Qadir and Fatehyab Zaidi; PS-100 Karachi-XII: Abdul Quddus, Javed Iqbal and Usman Bhagat; PS-102 Karachi-XIV: Khawaja Ejaz Ahmed and Faisal Khan; NA-245 Karachi-VII: Qazi Mohammed Bashir Advocate and Sardar Javed Iqbal Advocate; PS-101 Karachi-XIII: Hammad Khan and Syed Nazir; PS-103 Karachi-XV: Engr Ali Asghar and Dil Mohammed; NA-246 Karachi-VIII: Sohail Ansari; PS-105 Karachi-XVII: Shakil Ahmed Irani; PS-106 Karachi-XVIII: Jan-e-Alam Advocate and Sardar Abdul Sammad; NA-247 Karachi-IX: Sohail Abrar, Syed Qamar-ul-Hassan and Mohammed Asif; PS-104 Karachi-XVI: Dr Mehboob Ahmed and Salawar Khan; PS-107 Karachi-XIX: Ghazi Mustafa Ali Ghazi and Asma Bikik; NA-248 Karachi-X: Nabeel Ahmed Gabol and Ameer Khan Chandio; PS-108 Karachi-XX: Dr Saleem HinAgoro and Abdul Karim Jat; PS-109 Karachi-XXI: Muhammed Rafique Engr; NA-249 Karachi-XI: Abdul Habib Memon and Mohammed Yousuf Baloch; PS-110 Karachi-XXII: Habib Jan and Ashfaque Soldier; PS-111 Karachi-XXIII: Mohabbat Khan Niazi and Malik Mohammed Khan; NA-250 Karachi-XII: Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig and Sharjeel Memon; PS-112 Karachi-XXIV: Syed Najmi Alam and Engr Taimoor Ali: PS-113 Karachi-XXV: Zulfiqar Ali Qaimkhani and Agha Amjad Ali; NA-251 Karachi-XIII: Saeed Ghani and Umar Hayat Sindhu: PS-114 Karachi-XXVI: Naveed Anthony and Arshad Naqvi; PS-115 Karachi-XXVII: Sharjeel Memon, Mohammed Ismail Qambrani and Azra Nadeem Ahmed Bux; NA-252 Karachi-XIV: Saleem Sachwani and Nazir Ahmed Gojali; PS-116 Karachi-XXVIII: Farid-ul-Hassan Abbasi Advocate and Arif Badela; PS-117 Karachi-XXIX: Pir Abdul Rasheed and Salim Jaffer Ali Sachwani; NA-253 Karachi-XV: Syed Faisal Raza Abidi and Syed Asghar Hussain Behari; PS-118 Karachi-XXX: Engr Qazi Iftekhar Ahmed and Mohammed Arif Mithani; PS-126 Karachi XXXVIII: Baloch Khan Gabol, Ismail Brohi and Mohammed Khan Gabol; NA-254 Karachi-XVI: Abdul Sattar Channa and Syed Sohail Abrar; PS-124 Karachi-XXXVI: Ghulam Mustafa Memon and Imtiaz Ali Khoro; PS-125 Karachi-XXXVII: Syed Ghous Ali Shah and Mohammed Shafi; NA-255 Karachi-XVII: Nafees Usmani and Shahjehan Khan; PS-122 Karachi-XXXIV: Zafar Ahmed Siddiqui, Siraj Ahmed and Ejaz Ahmed; PS-123 Karachi-XXXV: Dr Sohail Ahmed and Atta Mohammed Dero; NA-256 Karachi-XVIII: Mirza Maqbool and Dr Manzoor Qadir; PS-119 Karachi-XXXI: Aamir Shah and Dr Mohammed Banaris Awan and Ejaz Ahmed Baloch; PS-120 Karachi-XXXII: Ahmed Waseem Alvi and Zahid Khan; PS-121 Karachi-XXXIII: Zahid Mohammed Advocate and Syed Manzoor Abbas: NA-257 Karachi-XIX: Riaz Hussain Lund Baloch and Nafees Usmani; PS-127 Karachi-XXXIX: Mohammed Rafique Baloch; PS-129 Karachi-XLI: Muzaffar Shujra and Ishtiaq Ahmed Awan; NA-258 Karachi-XX: Sher Mohammed Baloch and Abdul Razzaq Raja; PS-128 Karachi-XL: Mufti Feroz-ud-Din Hazarvi; and PS-130 Karachi-XLII: Mohammed Sajid Jokhio.
