Lahore:
The Muslim League of Pakistan-Nawaz (PML-N) opted for a prudent strategy in Lahore, awarding its NA-129 ticket to last year’s finalist, while making a jump in Wazirabad by aligning Bilal Tarar-the brother of the Federal Minister of Information Attaullah Tarar-A relayed strangulation of the Constitution, Party.
The party also announced its candidate for PP-87 Mianwali.
Meanwhile, the partner of the PPP coalition remains on the closure to challenge whether to contest. Any decision will be subject to the end of the consultation with PML-N, according to the secretary general of the party.
On the other hand, although Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) officially declared a boycott, some in the ranks of the party exhorts the incarcerated party, Imran Khan, to reconsider the decision.
In NA-129 of Lahore, the PML-N ticket was given to Mian Muhammad Nouman, who finished second in the general elections of 2024.
A hot competition is expected while Hamad Azhar de Pti, son of the late Mna Mian Azhar, entered the ring and will fight for this seat under the PTI banner, because it does not appear in the constituencies that the party has chosen to abandon.
The late Mian Azhar had captured the headquarters last year with more than 103,000 votes, beating Nouman with a margin of 32,000 votes, Nouman obtaining just over 71,000.
Initially, the president of the PM youth council, Rana Mashhood, would be in the running for the ticket, but last minute consultations within the Sharif family, and a meeting between Khawaja Saad Raique and the Prime Minister, made the verdict in favor of Nouman.
In Mianwali’s PP-87, the PML-N ticket went to Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi, who was also the party candidate in 2018. He had boycotted the survey that was finally reprogrammed in demonstration, alleging fakes in the general elections.
In 2024, the ticket rather realized the PTI Transfuge Inamullah Khan Niazi, a parent of Imran Khan, who lost with a huge margin of 95,000 votes against Ahmad Khan Bashar de PTI.
Niazi, following his protest against a party ticket in 2024, broke the ranks to form his own panel and presented an independent NA-90 candidate (Mianwali), only to be beaten by an amazing margin of around 150,000 votes.
However, despite the thug in 2024, Ali Noor would have kept cordial links with the president of Punjab PML-N Rana Sanaullah Khan, who would have played a decisive role to assume this post.
In particular, Rana Sanaullah, having himself lost his traditional bastion seat in Faisalabad to the PTI, has now been compensated by a party appointment for a siege in the Punjab Senate.
While the PML-N reorganizes its strategy, the PPP remains at sea. Party secretary general, Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, said that the PPP would consult its allies, in particular the PML-N, before making a final decision.
The ultimate decision of whether the PPP will present its candidates or not would be taken within the party, he said, adding that the candidacies had been invited and that a verdict would come soon.
Speculations continue to swirl in Punjab that the PPP can withdraw, depending on a movement that observers could torpedo its already fragile efforts to make incursions in the province, especially if the PTI is absent on the ground.
