Candidate denies he’s out of race

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KARACHI, Dec 25: Shaikh Maqsood, Pakistan Muslim League-N’s candidate for the N-248 Lyari seat, has denied that he had retired from the contest as reported in a section of the press on Monday.

He said he was a ticket holder of the party and ‘very much’ in the field for the elections. He appealed to the party’s high command to take action against people feeding false statements to the media.

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