Pakistan’s election commission has released the final list of nearly 18,000 candidates for the February 8 general elections. Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s name is not on the list of candidates.
Nomination papers for the 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician and a number of his party leaders were rejected by the ECP. Khan and many other leaders are in Adiala Jail at Rawalpindi, facing multiple cases.
His Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: party was also deprived of its iconic cricket ’bat’ electoral symbol, after which it fielded its candidates as independent, and each one was allotted a different symbol.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had set January 12 as the last date for the withdrawal of candidature and the publication of the revised list of candidates, but it was extended due to litigation.
The top electoral watchdog on Sunday released the final list of 17,816 contesting candidates for the National Assembly and provincial assemblies, Geo News reported Among these, 11,785 candidates will contest the polls independently, while 6,031 will compete under the banner of their respective political parties.
Three-time former prime minister and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will contest from National Assembly (NA) -15, Mansehra, and NA-130, Lahore, where he faces.
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