2,557 file nominations for Feb 8 polls

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari does not choose Karachi for contesting in election

KARACHI:

As the deadline for filing nomination papers came to end on Sunday, a total of 2,557 candidates have submitted nomination papers for 22 National Assembly seats and 47 Sindh Assembly seats during the last five days in the seven districts of the Karachi division.

A large number of political parties and independent candidates including Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P), Pakistan Peoples Party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema Islam and Jamiat Ulema Islam have submitted their nomination papers.

MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui submitted three nomination forms from district central and PML-N's president and former prime minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif submitted a nomination form from dictrict Keamari. MQM-P Senior Deputy Convener Mustafa Kamal has also submitted nomination paper from Keamari.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari did not choose Karachi for contesting in election. He contested the elections for the first time from Lyari seat in 2018.

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Sixty nine Returning Officers of Karachi division have issued Form 31 after the nomination period ended.

According to the said document, 93 candidate submitted nomination for National Assembly seats and 246 for Sindh Assembly seats in Malir district, 180 for National Assembly seats and 448 for Sindh Assembly seats in East district, 119 for National Assembly seats and 238 for Sindh Assembly seats in South, 116 for National Assembly seats and 257 for Sindh Assembly seats in Korangi, 146 for National Assembly seats and there are 356 candidates in Sindh Assembly seats in district central, 91candidates submitted nomination papers for National Assembly seats and 267 candidates in Sindh Assembly seats in the West district

According to the schedule, the nomination papers will be scrutinised from December 25 to 30.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2023