Application fee for the national and provincial assembly seats is Rs27,000 and Rs17,000 respectively. For applicants aged below 35 years, the fee is Rs7,000.
PESHAWAR:
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has received hundreds of applications from across Khyber –Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) in response to its call for submission of documents to contest elections for national and provincial assemblies.
From the PK-8 constituency, 54 applicants have so far applied for a party ticket, said PTI Provincial Information Secretary Aqeel Razzaq.
The district cabinets scrutinise the applications and then recommends four candidates from each constituency to the party’s Provincial Parliamentary Board. The board then forwards the names to the Central Parliamentary Board along with their recommendation.
The PTI has not yet announced the members of the provincial board, however, sources within the party said Shah Farman, Pervez Khattak and Saleem Jan Khan are expected to be part of it.
“The district cabinet members will shortlist candidates by looking into the applicants’ tax payment record, financial position, moral stature and personal influence in the area they wish to contest from,” said the newly elected general secretary for Peshawar, Younas Zaheer.
It will not be an easy task, especially when the district cabinet has received over 15-20 applications from each constituency.
“The decisions will be taken purely on merit and there are no chances of favouritism as it will be a collective decision in which party activists who lost in the intra-party elections will also be taken on board,” Zaheer stated.
Application fee for the national and provincial assembly seats is Rs27,000 and Rs17,000 respectively. For applicants aged below 35 years, the fee is Rs7,000.
As announced earlier by PTI Chairman Imran Khan, the party will allot 25% of its tickets to the youth.
The submission of nomination papers started on March 2 and will continue till March 9.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 7th, 2013.
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@kashif: Inshallah
SPECIAL ATTENTION OF IMRAN KHAN SAHIB FOR EXTENTION OF TIME TO SUBMIT APPLICATIONS FORMS FOR TICKETS: It is brought to the notice of Hon'ble Imran Khan Sahib that I belong to District Sialkot. The last date for submission of applications for obtaining tickets has been announced as 15th instant. Many people, could not get the application forms from the concerned offices as such could not file their applications. Today I have contacted TCS office at Sialkot Khadim Ali Road, and came to know that they had already closed the chapter of delivery of application forms for obtaining tickets to contest the elections. To my mind thousands people across Pakistan intended to participate in the coming elections from your party i.e PTI and if the date for submission of applications for obtaining ticket is not extended, they will be deprived of their legitimate right. My humble submission is that while reconsidering the date, the date for obtaining application forms and submission of forms in the concerned quarter, may be extended, enabling the undersigned and all others to participate in the said session. I hope that my request will be considered at the earliest.
Thanks SA Chaudhary Sialkot.
@Yasir Mehmood: IK explained in an interview other day that these amounts are to be collected by union + district councils by mobilizing their resources for people who can not afford to file their fees. Even then, just so that you are aware, the filing fee is actually very small. The true election expenditure in Pakistan starts after that. From what I know, running an election campaign for MPA / MNA costs easily above 30 million rupees in Pakistan and PTI is going to raise this money for its ticket holders that are unable to fund the bill
Great start for fresh Pakistan. Brothers and Sisters, vote for ideology, not individuals. Lets all stand behind Imran's leadership and help him evolve pure democratic process. In few iterations, even Imran will be indispensable. Develop strong system...and this will be the ONLY chance we will ever get to do such thing.
27000 for application no wonder the 'tailor' and rikshawdriver will never contest it
May we learn from our mistakes and vote PTI into power.
This is in stark contrast to the 'selection' of the candidates being done in Larkana and Raiwind which is completed in just 15 min while eating a tub of Nihari and siripaye.
Great...I sincerely hope that PTI sweeps the next elections. I really do.
A breath of fresh air in Pakistani politics, youth r the hope of a better future
The fresh buds of democracy in my country are visible now..Well done PTI!