Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday announced seven candidates including a sitting lady Member National Assembly for the next month Senate elections.
According to a notification issued by the PML-N central media cell here, Mohammad Ishaq Dar has been awarded party ticket to contest the Senate elections on the seats reserved for technocrats while Kamran Michael, Punjab Minister for Finance, Minorities Affairs, Human Rights and Women Development nominated on the seat reserved for minorities.
On the seat reserved for women, a sitting MNA, Begum Nuzhat Aamir Sadiq has been awarded the party ticket, who according to sources within the party will resign from the National Assembly soon. They said that Begum Nuzhat Sadiq, who is currently the party's MNA on reserve seat, would be replaced in the Lower House by Seema Jilani from Rawalpindi on the directives of the party leadership.
On general seats, the party has awarded tickets to four candidates namely M. Hamza, Zulfiqar Khosa, Rafiq Rajwana and Zafarullah Dhadla. Earlier, the sources said that the scrutiny committee headed by PML-N chairman Raja Zafar-ul-Haq interviewed various applicants but finalised the seven as the most suitable candidates.
It was also learnt that former senator of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Enver Baig had also applied for the PML-N ticket, whose candidature was, however, rejected. The committee also ignored the application of the PML-N's former secretary information and the spokesman Siddiqul Farooq to contest the Senate polls on the party's ticket.
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