A delegation from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan , led by its senior deputy convener Mustafa Kamal, visited the Sunni Tehreek leadership, including Sarwat Ejaz Qadri and Bilal Qadri, at the.
Race for NA-249 seat begins
No clear favourite in constituency with 331,000 registered voters
PHOTO: APP/FILE
KARACHI:
Around 30 candidates had collected 68 nomination forms for contesting the by-elections on the NA-249 seat - which was vacated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Faisal Vawda who resigned from the National Assembly after bagging a Senate seat - as of Sunday.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz s (PML-N s) Miftah Ismail, Pakistan Peoples Party s (PPP s) Nisar Khuhro and Qadir Khan Mandokhel, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan s (MQM-P s) Yousuf Alam, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf s (PTI s) Laila Parveen and Ashraf Jabbar Qureshi, Pak Sarzameen Party s Syed Mustafa Kamal, Syed Hafeezuddin and Humayun Usman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl s Rashid Mehmood Soomro, three Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) candidates and Sunni Tehreek s Bilal Qadri are among those who have collected the nomination papers.