ATTOCK, Feb 25: A landlord and a peasant are in the run for the post of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI)’s district president in the intra-party elections to be held on Tuesday.

The district general secretary and two senior vice-presidents have already been elected unopposed.

Three candidates - Sardar Mumtaz Khan, Waheed Murad and Rana Liaquat Ali Khan - had filed their nomination papers for the district president’s slot. Mr Rana, however, withdrew his candidature on Monday as he has already been elected unopposed district general secretary of the party.

It may be noted that Sardar Mumtaz Khan is a big landlord and also a wealthy businessman of Basal village in the Jand tehsil.

In the nomination papers, he has mentioned his profession as a businessman dealing in oil companies. On the other hand, his rival Waheed Murad is a peasant and has declared himself as a labourer in the Attock city.

It may be noted that Mr Khan is enjoying the support of PTI’s central leadership and ex-state minister Malik Amin Aslam, who is also an aspirant for the PTI ticket in NA-57 Attock-1. Waheed Murad is being supported by PTI’s leaders Malik Suhail Khan and ex-MPA Syed Ejaz Bukhari, who are the intending candidates for NA-58 Attock-II and PP-15 Attock-1, respectively.