Imran Khan makes important announcement over election of Karachi Mayor slot
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has endorsed the party’s unconditional support to Jamaat-i-Islami’s candidate Hafiz Naeemur Rehman in the election for Karachi mayor slot.
PTI Karachi President Akram Cheema on Wednesday issued the notification in this regard.
The decision gives enough numerical strength to the two-party alliance to successfully bring in their joint candidate for the key post of the local government set-up.
It all started with the statement of the PTI announcing support for the JI candidate after several rounds of consultation.
In the recently concluded Karachi local bodies polls, PPP emerged as the largest party but it failed to secure a simple majority of 179 votes needed for the seat of Karachi mayor.
PPP will need at least 22 seats even after an alliance with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
In terms of the number of seats, PPP is the largest party in Karachi with 98 seats so far, followed by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) with 89 seats and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) with 42 seats; however, no party has a simple majority.
There are a total of 246 Union Committees in Karachi and the cumulative number of City Council members, including those on reserved seats, is 367.
