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PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) declared that Sher Afzal Marwat will not receive a ticket from the party when declaring its candidates from Peshawar for the national and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies.
Shandana Gulzar is the candidate put out by the PTI in the NA-30 seat. Sajid Nawaz, Arbab Amir, Arbab Sher Ali and Asif Khan will be PTI candidates from several constituencies in Peshawar.
On December 27, 2023, Taimur Khan Jhagra, a PTI politician from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, voiced his disapproval of Marwat’s decision to run for office from Peshawar after the latter had filed his nomination papers for the NA-32 seat there.
Jhagra had stated, “It would be better if a leader from Peshawar contested from that constituency.”
Sher Afzal Marwat, meanwhile, declared he was not interested in running for office. He had further stated, “The PTI founder has instructed me to run for office from Lakki Marwat.
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He claimed in a tweet on X that he would win this seat for his party and that he had been given a ticket from his own constituency, NA-41 Lakki Marwat.
PTI tickets for provincial seats in Peshawar would be awarded to Mehmood Jan, Taimur Jhagra, Kamran Bangash, Arbab Jehandad, Fazal Elahi, Hamidul Haq, Asim Khan, Mina Khan, Ali Zaman, Malik Shahab, Samiullah, Sher Ali Afridi, and Noreen Arif, the party announced.
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The Peshawar High Court (PHC) upheld the PTI’s election symbol, the “bat,” on January 10, allowing the party to use its well-known emblem while polling on February 8.
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