*LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif, onSaturday confirmed that she is going to step into the electoral arena, buthas taken no decision about which constituency she will be contesting theJuly 25 general elections from.*

Responding to the reports that she will be contesting the polls from NA-127instead of NA-125, she tweeted: “No decision has been taken yet. Applyingfrom both [constituencies]. Let the party and leadership decide.”

Earlier, it was reported that she has obtained the nomination papers fromreturning officer Asif Bashir for NA-125, which was previously NA-120 untilthe fresh delimitation carried out by the electoral body.

It is the same constituency where her mother Kulsoom Nawaz won by-electionin October, last year.

After a fierce contest between the candidates of the two rival politicalparties, Kulsoom, the former premier’s wife who is undergoing cancertreatment in London, had won back her husband’s seat after hisdisqualification, defeating PTI’s Dr Yasmin Rashid.

NA-120 seat had fallen vacant after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’sdisqualification by the Supreme Court on July 28, 2017.

In the 2013 polls, Sharif had contested and won this NA seat.He was firstelected by this constituency during the elections in 1985 held under GenZial ul Haq. Benazir Bhutto-led Pakistan People’s Party and other opponentsof the military regime had boycotted the non-party elections.