SWABI, April 4: The Qaumi Watan Party has decided to contest elections for only three provincial assembly seats in the district and withdraw its candidates from other constituencies after finalising seat adjustment with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl.

The local leaders of Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) said that they had withdrawn their candidates from all provincial assembly constituencies except three in the district in favour of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).

Masood Jabbar, QWP former provincial deputy general secretary, told Dawn that they would support the candidates of JUI-F in the district in all provincial assembly constituencies except three.

They (JUI-F) would also support the three candidates of QWP including Fayaz Ali for PK-31, Swabi-I, Salman Wali for PK-33, Swabi-III and Abdul Karim for PK-34, Swabi-IV, he added.

“Now we are just focusing on election campaign and helping JUI-F where it needs our help and support,” Mr Jabbar said.

To a question, he said that they were looking for the first ever win from the district. “In past, our leaders committed some mistakes but this time we are extremely careful and the alliance with JUI-F has strengthened the position of the candidates of both the parties,” he said.

Mr Jabbar predicted that the independent candidates, who revolted against their respective parties, would face defeat as they could only harm their friends, turned into foes. He said that without entering in an alliance it was difficult for both QWP and JUI-F to achieve their objectives.

Fair: About 50 national and multinational companies would participate in the two-day ‘Industrial Open House and Career Fair’ at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology on April 11 and 12.

Chairing a meeting here on Thursday, Prof Fazl Ahmad Khalid, pro-rector (academic), said that arrangements for the event were in the final stage. He said that students were told to prepare their final year projects, which would be displayed by them in the central workshop.

The gathering of the leading entrepreneurs and employers was really a great occasion for both the academic staff and industrialists to know each other, Prof Fazl said. He added that traders could put forward their requirements and the academia could prepare the students according to the needs of the country.