PESHAWAR, April 15: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League coordinator Nisar Muhammad Khan has denied reports that the party’s candidate for the vacant Senate seat would withdraw in favour of an independent candidate.

Mr Khan said the party would use all democratic means for the victory of its candidate.

Addressing a news conference in the Peshawar Press Club on Friday, he said the Pakistan Muslim League was the largest and the founding political party of Pakistan and would participate in all democratic and political activities in the country.

He said candidate Nighat Yasmin Aurakzai had neither withdrawn from the race nor would retire in favour of any candidate.

Mr Khan said PML central president Shujaat Hussain through a notification on April 5, had nominated him as provincial coordinator of the party, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani as provincial general secretary and Nighat Yasmin Aurakzai as provincial information secretary of the party to reorganise and reactivate the party in the province.

He said that he would try his level best to hold party election within six months and for this purpose would seek the help and suggestions of party workers and leaders.

Mr Khan said he would establish a provincial secretariat for the party in the NWFP and visit the province to mobilise party workers.

He admitted that he had been nominated to overcome internal crisis in the party, and vowed to bring all old and new faces in the party at a joint platform to make it popular and strongest political force in the province.

In reply to a question, the PML leader said that the demand of governor’s rule in the NWFP was the personal opinion of Salim Saifullah Khan.