PTI issues lists of tickets holders for general election

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has issued lists of its contesting candidates for national assembly and provincial assemblies seats for the upcoming general election.

According to the PTI central media cell statement, some 173 candidates were finalized for seats of the National Assembly while 290 candidates for provincial assemblies.

Chairman PTI Imran Khan will contest election on five seats of National Assembly including Islamabad (NA-53), Bannu (NA-35), Karachi (NA-243), Mianwali (NA-95) and Lahore (NA-131).

For Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Assembly, party tickets to 81 candidates for various constituencies had been issued so far while in Punjab, tickets for 165 constituencies had been issued.

Similarly, names of 21 candidates had been announced for 21 constituencies of Sindh and 23 for Balochistan assemblies so far.

PTI Central leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi will contest election from NA-156 (Multan), Fawad Chaudhary from NA-67 (Jhelum), Pervaiz Khattak NA-25 (Nowshera), Murad Saeed NA-4 (Swat), Abdul Aleem Khan NA-129 (Lahore), Dr Yasmeen Rashid NA-125 (Lahore), Ejaz Chaudhary NA-133 (Lahore), Shafqat Mehmood NA-130 (Lahore), Usman Dar NA-73 (Sialkot) while Ghulam Sawar Khan will be field from two constituencies of Rawalpindi (NA-59 and NA-63) in the coming general election.