ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan hasreportedly expressed dissatisfaction over the lists of the reserved seatsfor the party women, The News has learnt.link#_>

But what the PTI chief perhaps forgot was that these were the very sameNational Assembly and provincial assembly lists which were provided to theElection Commission of Pakistan over a week ago which bore his signature,said a party member.

Several PTI members, while requesting anonymity, told The News there was nomechanism for the selection of candidates.

“The manner in which a party formed in the name of justice announced itsnames for the reserved seats was disappointing,” said a PTI member.

He said all the attention was on the distribution of general tickets andselection of reserved seats for women was subjected to favouritism andnepotism.

Details are surfacing of the unfair manner in which the tickets were doledout to family members and personal friends without following merit, healleged.

An angry party worker said although members were asked to submit forms,evidently nobody did a proper scrutiny of the forms.

“No interviews were conducted at all. Names were added of those who had noteven sent their nominations. There was no selection criteria,” said theparty member.

More intriguingly, while the last date set by the ECP was June 11 forsubmission of the final lists by the party, a former KP minister fromPeshawar submitted those on June 9. He revealed the list after the deadlineexpired.

Much hue and cry is being raised now but legal experts reckon that once theECP has accepted the list, it cannot be amended or returned.

Parliamentary Board comprised of former chief minister Pervez Khattak, ShahFarman, Atif Khan, Shahram Tarakai and Asad Qaiser.

There was no women representation in the committee. Moreover, the PTIworkers believed, the KP women’s wing office-bearers and Peshawar regionoffice-bearers were bypassed completely.

A number of women protested outside Banigala against what they termedunfair distribution of tickets by Parliamentary Board KP.

In the past, prominent workers like Fauzia Kasuri who had been deniedtickets in PTI have left the party.