Refuting the media reports of seat adjustment, Convener MQM-Pakistan Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Wednesday that his party will not withdraw its candidate in favour of PML-N’s Shehbaz Sharif from Karachi’s NA-242 constituency, a privated TV channel reported on Wednesday. In a statement, Khalid Maqbool said that Mustafa Kamal will be MQM-P’s candidate from NA-242 – the constituency from where PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif is also contesting general elections. “All reports regarding seat adjustment with PML-N on NA-242 seat are baseless,” he clarified. Siddiqui’s clarification comes a day after it emerged that Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N have agreed over seat adjustment on Karachi’s NA-242 seat. The deadlock between the two parties on NA-242 was resolved after several rounds of dialogues as MQM-Pakistan finally accepted PML-N’s demand and decided to withdraw its candidate Mustafa Kamal in favour of former premier Shehbaz Sharif, it emerged. Sources said that MQM-P will officially made the announcement after the telephonic contact between heads of two parties -Shehbaz Sharif and Khalid Maqbool Siddique. The MQM-P has already offered its support to the PML-N in three other NA constituencies of Karachi – two from Malir and one in Lyari. However, the party [MQM-P] has categorically conveyed that it would not show any compromise in NA-240 where the PML-N wants Owais Noorani of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan to contest, the source said. Similarly, he said, the MQM-P would also not withdraw from NA-243, where the PML-N wanted to field Akhtar Jadoon, a former Sindh minister and PPP leader. According to sources, two allied parties have also agreed that the PML-N candidates will contest on the National Assembly seats of Mirpur Khas, Nawabshah and Sukkur districts, while the MQM will field its candidates on provincial assembly seats in these districts.
MQM-P refuses to withdraw its candidate in favour of Shehbaz
Refuting the media reports of seat adjustment, Convener MQM-Pakistan Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Wednesday that his party will not withdraw its candidate in favour of PML-N’s Shehbaz Sharif from Karachi’s NA-242 constituency, a privated TV channel reported on Wednesday. In a statement, Khalid Maqbool said that Mustafa Kamal will be MQM-P’s candidate from […]
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