Nisar to make seat adjustment with PTI

Author: Web Desk

LAHORE: Ex-Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar has announced to side with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the general elections 2018.

According to sources, Nisar has decided to make seat adjustment with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for 2 National Assembly and 2 Provincial Assembly seats and will support the Imran Khan led party.

On Saturday, PML-N leader and former Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique had announced that Nisar had parted ways with the PML-N. Nisar had also announced, earlier this week, that he would contesting elections as an independent candidate from 4 constituencies.

Earlier this week, Nisar submitted forms for four different constituencies. Sheikh Aslam submitted papers on his behalf for NA-59 (Rawalpindi), NA-63 (Taxila) for the National Assembly.

For Provincial Assembly, Sheikh Aslam and Sheikh Sajid submitted papers for Nisar to contest PP-10 and PP-12. However, the Election Commission of Pakistan has called the PML-N leader on June 10 for the scrutiny of  nomination form for PP-10.

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