LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has awarded party tickets to its 38 candidates for 44 seats of national and Punjab assemblies from Lahore.
Candidates for remaining six seats, including one of the National Assembly, would be finalised after Eid holidays, well-placed sources in PPP confirmed to Daily Times on Friday.
As per the decision of the party bigwigs, Samina Ghurki would face Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif in NA-132 and Ashraf Bhatti would contest election Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in NA-131.
Faiza Malik, would contest election from NA-135.
Those who were awarded tickets included Syed Faraz Hashmi (NA-123), Mian Shahid Abbas (NA-124), Hafiz Zubair Kardar (NA-125), Aurangzeb Burki (NA-126), Syed Zafar Ali Shah (NA-128), Iftikhar Shahid (NA-129), Afnan Sadiq Butt (NA-130), Ashraf Bhatti (NA-131), Samina Khalid Ghurki (NA-132), Chaudhry Aslam Gill (NA-133), Ch Ghulam Mustafa Jutt (NA-134), Faiza Malik (NA-135) and Rana Jameel Ahmad Manj for NA-136. The PPP is yet to field a candidate for NA-127.
For Punjab Assembly seats, the PPP award tickets to Haji Mian Azizur Rehman Chann (PP-144), Syed Muzaffar Iqbal Shah (PP-145), Malik Asghar Ali (PP-147), Mirza Muhammad Adrees (PP-148), Chaudhry Mansha Prince (PP-150), Muhammad Akram Dogar (PP-151), Asif Nagra (PP-152), Zahid Zulfiqar Khan (PP-153), Muhammad Asrarul Haq Butt (PP-155), Haji Mian Saifur Rehman (PP-156), Arif Zafar (PP-158), Mian Muhammad Aslam (PP-159), Sajjad Nazir Chaudhry (PP-160), Ch Munsaf Ali Jutt (PP-161), Amir Mehmood Bhatti (PP-162), Ch Adnan Sarwar Gorsi (PP-163), Ch Amir Ranjha (PP-164), Muhammad Irfan (PP-165), Mian Tariq Aziz (PP-166), Haq Nawaz Khan (PP-167), Al-Haaj Sarfraz Ahmed Khan Rai (PP-168), Mohammad Saleem Ishtiaq (PP-169), Arshad Mehmood Lodhi (PP-171), Muhammad Akhtar Sial (PP-172) and Mohtarma Rubina Sohail for PP-173.
Candidates for PP-146, PP-149, PP-154, PP-157 and PP-170 would be announced later.
Earlier, the PPP had submitted nominee list for reserved seats in Punjab.
The list for National Assembly from Punjab includes Hina Rabbani Khar, Nelum Jabbar, Palwasha Muhammad Khan Zai, Itrat Bano Gilani, Mehrin Anwar Raja, Nitasha Doltana, Nasira Mayo, Rahila Baloch, Belum Hasnain, Samina Mushtaq Paganwala, Zahida Insari, Lubna Chaudhry Advocate and Malaika Raza.
Those named in the list of reserved seats for women in the Punjab Assembly include Shazia Abid, Nargis Faiz Malik, Musarat Bano Sindhu, Shahida Jabeen, Samina Naveed, Wazirun Nisa Chaudhry, Shagufta Javed Iqbal Kanja, Dr Noorul Nisa Malik, Shagufta Chaudhry, Rahila Muhammad Ali, Sonia Khan, Saamia Amir, Shaista Khosa, Lubna Tariq and Dr Tasneem Chaudhry.
Meanwhile, Basroo Jee, Naseem Mehmood Sahotra, Najmi Saleem, Nida Nazir, Pannu Ram, Jibran Gill, and Naveed Amir Jiva have been nominated for minorities seats in the provincial assembly.
Published in Daily Times, June 16th 2018.