LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan will contest the elections from NA-122 and NA-125, Express News reported on Tuesday.
Earlier, Imran Khan had submitted nomination papers for NA-126 as well, but has withdrawn from the Lahore constituency.
Khan will now contest elections for five national assembly seats from the constituencies NA-1 (Peshawar-II), NA-56 (Rawalpindi-VII), NA-71 (Mianwali-I), NA-122 (Lahore-V), NA-125 (Lahore-VIII).
The ECP started scrutiny of the nomination papers from April 1.
For the first time in Pakistan’s history, three of the country’s top institutions – State Bank of Pakistan, National Accountability Bureau and Federal Board of Revenue – will screen candidates’ backgrounds for criminal conviction, loan default, tax evasion and other financial irregularities.
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a lot of good people have spilt their noble blood for our great country their and their generations voices are muffled what choice of leadership do we have why do we have to choose the lesser of three evils as the best candidate why cant we have better choices maybe we ought to change ourselfs before we choose someone to change our country?
@Ch. Allah Daad: Lol... How can you support and defend corrupt politicians...???
People, when we didn't had a leader to vote for we all just whined, but as we gotten one we should be stick to him firmly :)
@Sher Ghazi: Its all Allah's will, if he decides to make us suffer for another 5 years then he might as well lose, but i reckon you pray that he wins :). I am not sure if he will listen to the public i am not sure that he will bring change but i am sure that he will be way better insha ALLAH !
He come Mr Khan is allowed to contest from more than one constituency? This is not democracy! Is there no one to object?
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@Zahir Cheema: FYI I'm part of the old Lahore: NA 120 to be precise; and I'm going to vote for PTI!
@Ch. Allah Daad: yes there are few olg timers who think that they are voting for Quaid's muslim league just like they keep account in NBP or Allied/Habib bank: still consudering them as govt owned and no preference of service quality come out of bradary issues and vote for Pak
Mr. Imran Khan will again sweep the elections like he has been for the past 15 years.
Imran Khan is the only bacon of hope. He will win all the five seats Inshallah
Nawaz himself will contest on multiple seats,,shehbaza is contrsting from 7 seats I heard So contesting on multiple seat and area is to boost the party workers
"For the first time in Pakistan’s history, three of the country’s top institutions – State Bank of Pakistan, National Accountability Bureau and Federal Board of Revenue – will screen candidates’ backgrounds for criminal conviction, loan default, tax evasion and other financial irregularities."
I just hope they actually REPORT those IRREGULARITIES and not hide them under the table.
Odds gone down now he thinks His chances to win are only one in five
Youth will vote for PTI on 11 May, but for this they will have to wake up on 11 a.m. :D
Youth will vote for PTI on 11 May, but for this they will have to wake up before 11 a.m. :D
@Fawad Chaudary: @Jat: @waqas: @Ch. Allah Daad: thank you all for being the real enemies of Pakistan. how many times you want to be ripped by the previous leaders who have done nothing for us. are we supporting the roti kapra aur makan of few strong families in Pakistan. I have been traveling across the world and I know what image they have given to us. speak for a change.
@A Peshawary Its wise to be optimistic than opportunistic my friend. Your doubts will soon be clear IA
85 million registered voters this time around compared to 45 million of last time out of which only 9 million used their vote of which the ruling part got 5 million votes . So conservatively speaking even if 30% of the total voters turn out on the election day ir-respective of whether they pertain to urdu class , english class , burger class we will have 25 million votes during this election. Among the new voters IK is undoubtedly the preferred choice. If we finally take into account the fact that the last government only managed to get 5 million votes which were primarily due to the sympathy factor we can symbolically predict a sweeping win for IK only taking into account the new voters that have entered the regime with their die hard loyalty for IK. If figures are to go by IK will make a clean sweep if we get free and fair election. Its a big IF but the game of probability and logic is pointing towards IK as the next PM with a clear margin.
Why imran khan withdrew from NA-126??? Because he was afraid meera will win that seat :P
whoever you vote.but please do vote my vote for PMLn Inshallah
My my Imran Khan Why you withdrew from NA-126??? I know Why you were afraid that Meera will win and you will lose :P :D lolz
Try from all provinces of pakistan
@ Ch. Allah Daad What a stupid and senseless comment you made there. First let me get the things straight. Its not PML(N) who decides who to give food and who not to. We all know Allah is the supreme authority here. Secondly as far as I know people who are in PML(N) can snatch food from others to feed there family.
@Hammad: That's the way to go my brother.... InshAllah when Pakistan will change... you will be proud of what you did....
I wonder how can people not stand for a man (IK), who has struggled to change us and Pakistan for 17 years and now when is the time to change.... they oppose him.
If someone is not a great follower of IK, I respect that. But could he or she close their eyes for a minute and think what Shareef's has done for this country during their previous terms (you can argue 2 or 5 terms but definitely it is more than once) and do you think they will do any different? I will doubt that.
And if you also doubt that, then please just once for the sake of our country, vote for IK. You will inshAllah see the difference.
@Ch. Allah Daad: Ch Saab, Don't give such lectures... Dad can vote for any party and the family can vote for their choice party or leader...This is called Democracy. Get out of this Family Dynasties limited mindset.... @Rumail
Height of insecurity and distrust in your voters. As someone rightly said above, why not contest all the seats ? And he is expected to bring change ? Some leader !!!!
@Hammad: Pakistan has a bright future sir jee. Because of ppl like you :)
@ Rumail, your dad is a very sensible and wise gentleman. This is the reason he is voting for PML(N). As a family head and bread earner, he knows more than you about realities of life. You, on the other hand think about yourself and have no sense how tough it is to take of a family. Put yourself in his shoes and try to get big picture.
@ pak patriot
Your name does not match with your hate speech. Whats wrong in being dehati or drinking lassi ?. Is that your true leader IK taught you ?
I have a dream, "I'm contesting from all of the 272 NA seats in Pakistan"...
@Optimistic: Nice to be over optimistic. A Peshawary
@Hammad: Well said.. you are a start mate! Also tell him that I'm flying from UK to campaign and vote for IK....
My vote is in karachi but right now i am in Pindi however i have registered myself as Tabdili Razakar and inshaAllah am going to campaign for IK as he is contesting from my constituency NA-56.
Best of Luck Khan sb!
A warm welcome from NA 56!
@Hammad: If it's true, u r invincible
@Sher Ghazi: Mr. Ghazi u lost ur ethics already.
@Azmat Ali: Oh Mr. Palmist.
@Zahir Cheema: You are a typical patwari who knows about area and location.
@abcde: Why are you unpleasing. All 272 seats of NA will be ours man just keep open your eyes.
@shah: We know what is going on in quaid city. daily 10 people are being killed in various areas in Karachi. you support the culprits because non of your family member is being killed in those tragic incidents. the whole Pakistan support him for a change
I pray for Imran Khan may he sweep all over Pakistan Insha ALLAH. We are with you Sir Imran Khan. We did not see a leader like you before. We show our full trust on you.
Lets suppose IK win all 5 seats, he have to spare 4 during govt forming...... He himself trying PTI to loose on 4 seats deliberately ? By-election will happen after two to three months :( Why IK is laying to youth that he will clean sweep, while not sure of his own winning !
Same goes to all other top leadership of PTI, Javed Hashmi, SMQ etc. who are going to participate from 2-3 seats :(
Please don't give me example of other parties leadership, as no one else had seen the dream of clean sweep, neither they claim that they the most poise people in this country !
My and my family votes for Imran Khan only from Sialkot
@Azmat Ali: but will win all 5 of them. :) btw how many seats mian sb is contesting from? four is the answer.
I think he didn't like the fact that Meera has decided to contest against him. But on serious note NA 126 or 125 is not very different. @ Zahir Cheema you can't discriminate Lahore into pure Lahore or vice versa. Lahore is not retricted to areas which you are referring to as old Lahore. The city has well expanded beyond the original walled city. You cannot label former to be more lahoris and later as burgers.
It appears that Khan is not as confidant as portrayed in the political market place. If he was sure of being elected he would have contested from One seat only. The candidates contesting from more than one seat are afraid of losing a typical old style member parliamentarian mind set. He has proved himself to be like any other routine type political figure. *The slogan of change! Haaa Haaa Haaaaa *
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Will he or all others contesting on more than one seat pay for the expenses of byelections on seats they vacate?
this man will ruin his respect for the greed for power.
Please IK, contest from Okara. wish u win
@ Zahir cheema: You can call me a burger, I spend 6 hours on internet each day majority of which goes to facebook. I spent 30k on Lahore trip to attend Mar 23rd Jalsa of which Gen Pasha didn't pay me a single penny. Driving like 1500 km alone couldn't force me change my plans. I went there and stood there for 6 hours, went completely wet but didn't move. Such is my spirit and such is my passion for that man known as IK. If I can do all that stuff, people like you should be rest assured that its much easier for me and hundred of thousands more like to me to walk few hundred yards to the polling station to vote. We will do that, you just need to wait and see.
Imran Khan being a former cricketer, a fast bowler should have contested six seats keeping in view six balls per over and score a hat-trick and if he is able to win more would be a world record.
What's the deal with running for multiple seats? This should be illegal. Have the courage of your conviction and run for one seat, preferably fom the city where you live. Allow others from your party to contest in the multiple seats that you now run for.
We are with you, captain! IA!
Fear of losing in the heart of IK and Inshallah you will lose all 5
You may be surprised by the higher level of participation in these elections. When people feel that their vote counts and the assemblies will make an impact on the affairs of the country, they tend to vote in large numbers. A good example is the overwhelmingly high participation level in the recent elections in Middle Eastern countries caused by the Arab Spring uprisings. Even in the 2012 US Presidential elections the percentage of voters that cast their votes was 67.4 percent, and I believe that was considerably higher than in some of the elections in the past. I would also like to add that this is a good opportunity for our people to let their voices be heard by kicking out the inefficient and insolent legislators and to vote for the new blood that may do something to improve the lot of our people.
My vote is for PTI, no matter what !
IK my family votes for you, inshallah you will win across pakistan
He will face tough time in every constituency even in Miawali....!
@Zahir Cheema: Burger Class, Liberal Class, Conservative Class, English Class, Urdu Class, all are voting for Imran Khan. It is at his will where he wants to run according to the best political strategy, and The King (Khan) chooses wisely :)
@Zahir Cheema....!!!! Thanks for this long explanation.....History is going to CHANGE this time....................bus thoda Intizaaar!!!!!
Why not from Karachi?
Imran claims to be a leader of all Pakistan, so he should have contested election from at least 1 seat in all of the 4 provinces
might aswell contest from all 272 seats...
Don't Know who the candidate is, but I'll Vote for PTI. From Dera Ismail Khan
Whichever the case, PTI will sweep anyway IA...
Why not from all 272?
Welcome Khan Sb....!!!!!