PPP announces 4 candidates for National, Punjab Assembly

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party has announced four candidates for the National Assembly and Punjab Assembly by-election seats.

Rana Aftab will contest from PP sixty-three and Allah Wasaya will contest from PP two-fifty-nine.

Jamshed Dasti will contest the by-polls on PPP's ticket from NA one seventy-eight, the same seat that was vacated after his resignation.

The Prime Minister's brother Ahmed Mujtaba Gilani had announced intentions to contest elections for Dasti's vacated seat, but the PPP revoked its decision to give him a ticket in the last 24 hours.

Nazir Jutt will contest from NA one sixty seven.

The candidates have been decided in a PPP Parliamentary Board Meeting presided by the President and Prime Minister.