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A local government elections candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) running for ward 8 in the Cantonment Board of Hyderabad was allegedly beaten up and warned to withdraw his candidature.
Adnan Shah claimed that on Saturday night, four armed motorcyclists approached him in Latifabad Unit 12. "The men beat me up and told me to withdraw from the contest."
PPP's district vice president Amanullah Siyal said the police have yet to register an FIR though they had assured them that the case will be registered on Shah's complaint. Siyal refused to blame any political party for the attack. Hyderabad SSP Irfan Baloch said he did not know of any such attack.
CBH Elections
More than two-thirds of the nominations have been rejected for various reasons during the three-day scrutiny process which ended on April 4. The returning officer, Omer Siddique Chaudhry, accepted only 30 of the 95 nomination forms, leaving two wards — ward 1 and ward 6 — without a candidate as all the nominations were turned down.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 6th, 2015.
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