PPP awards Nabil Gabol ticket for NA-246 Karachi bypolls

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has announced its candidates for by-elections in NA-237 and NA-246 constituencies of Karachi.

The PPP has awarded ticket to Sardar Nabil Ahmed Gabol for NA-246 Lyari. Gabol and Yusuf Baloch had submitted their nomination papers for the by-polls. The party has picked Abdul Haleem Shaikh for the NA-237 Malir constituency.

PPP central president and MPA Faryal Talpur officially awarded party tickets to both candidates. The meeting was attended by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Kharo, former Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah.

Waqar Mehdi, Saeed Ghani, Nasir Hussain Shah, Nadir Nabil Gabol, Yusuf Baloch, Najmi Alam, Salman Abdullah Murad, Sajid Jokhio, Saleem Baloch, Raja Abdul Razzaq, Mehmood Alam Jamote, Shahina Sher Ali, Khalil Hot, Numan Sheikh, Karamullah Waqasi were also present.

Nabil Gabol said he was grateful to Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and President Zardari for reposing their trust in him. He said the party workers will defeat Imran Khan and avenge the 2018 elections.

The party was indecisive to pick the candidate as PTI chairman Imran Khan will also contest by-polls from all three Karachi constituencies. The PPP and MQM-P had objected to PPP had objected to Imran Khan’s nomination papers as a candidate for the by-elections.

They argued that Imran Khan had come under doubt after the verdict of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the prohibited funding case. However, the Returning Officers (ROs) of NA-237 Malir and NA-246 Lyari approved the nomination papers.

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