ISLAMABAD – Dr Muhammad Amjad, Secretary General of All Pakistan MuslimLeague (APML) on Friday submitted nomination forms in the offices of theReturning Officers for NA-52 and NA-53. Dr Amjad will contest electionsfrom these two constituencies of the federal capital.
At the time of nomination papers’ submission, he was accompanied by a largenumber of the supporters of the APML including Haji Raja Matloob, SheikhSajid, Shehzad Satti, Raja Jamshed and Nasir Khan. While talking to mediaon the occasion Dr Amjad said he was contesting from two constituencies ofIslamabad while Chairman of his party former President Musharraf willcontest NA elections from four constituencies.
They are Chitral, Layyah, Gawadar and Karachi. To a question regardingblocking of Pervez Musharraf’s CNIC, he said Gen Musharraf and his partyhad always respected judiciary and its decisions and they had faith in theSupreme Court and would soon file a petition with regard to unblocking ofMusharraf’s CNIC.
A number of candidates from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), PPP andJamaat-e-Islami (JI) have also submitted their nomination papers withreturning officers for the upcoming general election. Former MNA fromIslamabad, PTI’s Asad Umar submitted his nomination papers for NA-54.
Mr Umar did not have the nomination fee Rs30,000 with him at the time andso he asked his fellows to deposit the amount. JI leader and former MNAfrom Islamabad, Mian Aslam also submitted his nomination papers for twoconstituencies from Islamabad.
Two PPP candidates, Raja Imran Ashraf and Sibtul Haider Bokhari, submittednomination papers for NA-54 and NA-53 respectively. Mr Ashraf is thebrother of former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Mr Bokhari is thebrother of former Senate chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari.
Meanwhile, so far, as many as 180 candidates have received forms for thesubmission of nomination papers to contest elections for three seats of theNational Assembly from Islamabad and more than 20 candidates- includingindependent and from various political parties- have submitted theirnomination papers.
The last date for the submission of nominations has been extended to June11 and more nominations will be submitted in the coming days. As perdetails, some 43 people received nomination forms for NA-52, 47 people forNA-53 and 90 for NA-54.
PPP General Secretary, Nayyar Bukhari said PPP would announce a final listof candidates in the next 48 hours and the party manifesto by next week.According to PML-N General Secretary Islamabad Malik Shujaur Rehman, theparty would too finalize candidates for Islamabad in a few days.