LAHORE – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will contestnext general elections from three provinces and from five seats.

Imran Khan will contest elections from Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi,Mianwali and Peshawar.

He will contest from Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, party’sspokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said on Tuesday.

Addressing a party function held in Lahore on Tuesday, Chaudhry said thatMr Khan will kick off his nationwide tour on March 4 and will begin theelectioneering after March 8.

According to the spokesman, the PTI failed to emerge victorious in the 2013general elections as their candidates in the polls were ‘inexperienced’.

He added the PTI has emerged as the biggest political party of the countryand Imran will be the next prime minister of Pakistan.

“No political party, except the PTI, is in a position to contest electionsfrom all four provinces,” Fawad claimed and added that the Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) is limited to central Punjab while the PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP) has shrunk to Sindh.

In the upcoming general elections, Chaudhry highlighted, his party wouldnominate around 250 nominees from different constituencies of the NationalAssembly out of total 272 seats on which the elections will be held. In thepresent political scenario, the ruling PML-N is hardly a party of 100candidates, mainly in Punjab, he maintained.

Earlier, PTI leader Abdul Aleem Khan stated that the PTI chief wouldcontest the upcoming general elections from five NA constituencies.