*LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has finally decided toaward party ticket for general elections 2018 to former interior ministerNisar Ali Khan*.

Sources on Wednesday said Nisar will contest polls on two national assemblyand as many provincial assembly seats.

Azhar Farooq said the announcement was made while the PML-N was finalizingtickets for Rawalpindi constituency.

“On directive of President PML-N Shehbaz Sharif, parliamentary board of theparty awarded him tickets for two provincial assembly seats and twonational assembly seats. Official announcement in this regard will be madeon June 16,” the party sources said.

It is pertinent here to mention that a rift was going on within the partyover awarding the veteran politician ticket for elections after rumoursstarted doing rounds that he was going to join the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf(PTI), which he has categorically denied.

Earlier, in response to a statement of Maryam Nawaz, the former ministerhad said it was her father who would decide on whether to award a partyticket to him or not, (and by the way) he said: “Who asked for the ticket?”

He had said he never asked for a party ticket in his 35-year long politicalcareer and he did not intend to do so in the future.