Mahmood recently left the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) to join PTI. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has given his nod for the PML-N ticket for Ghazi to contest the by-polls. PML-N AJK President Raja Farooq Haider said Ghazi will beat Chaudhry in the by-polls, to be held on March 15. He added that Ghazi had defeated Mahmood in 1991 as well, saying the candidate had also won the 2001 polls but the result was changed at the eleventh hour by the PPP government in Islamabad. Haider urged voters to reject PTI’s candidate. He reiterated that PML-N has won three consecutive by-elections in the region by defeating the PPP.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2015.
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