{"id":22552,"date":"2024-01-11T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22552"},"modified":"2024-01-11T12:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:36:39","slug":"mqm-p-appoints-karachi-based-candidates-for-na-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/mqm-p-appoints-karachi-based-candidates-for-na-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"MQM-P appoints Karachi-based candidates for NA seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former mayor of Karachi Mustafa Kamal will challenge PML-N&#8217;s Shehbaz Sharif from NA-242 on a MQM-P ticket.<\/p>\n<p>KARACHI: On Thursday, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) unveiled a list of the party&#8217;s candidates running for seats in the National Assembly from Karachi. The 16 candidates from MQM-P would run for 18 NA seats in the megalopolis.<\/p>\n<p>According to the list, MQM-P would field Aasia Ishaque from NA-232, Javed Hanif from NA-233, Muhammad Abubakar from NA-234, Iqbal Mahsud from NA-235, and Hassan Sabir from NA-236 constituencies of Karachi, in that order, starting from the lower number of NA seats to the higher number.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/bat-pti-gets-its-symbol-back.html\">PTI gets its &amp;#8216;Bat&amp;#8217; symbol back for Elections<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Arshad Vohra for NA-240, Abdul Rauf Siddiqui for NA-237, Sadiq Iftikhar for NA-238, and Dr. Farooq Sattar for NA-241 in district South will all run for office.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Kamal, Senior Deputy Convener of MQM-P, will run for the NA-242 hot seat in the Keamari district. The party has been coerced by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to drop its nominee in favor of Shehbaz Sharif, the former prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/daniyal-aziz-says-he-would-run-against-pml-n-in-the-narowal-polls.html\">Daniyal Aziz says he would run against PML-N in the Narowal polls<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>NA-243 will be represented by Humayun Usman, NA-244 by Farooq Sattar, NA-255 by Hafizuddin, NA-246 by Aminul Haque, and NA-247 by Mustafa Kamal.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, the convener of MQM-P, will represent the party in the NA-248 seat in district Central. Ahmed Saleem Siddiqui will run in NA-249, and Farhan Chishti in NA-250.<\/p>\n<p>A contender for the NA seat in Lyari was not given a NA ticket by the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former mayor of Karachi Mustafa Kamal will challenge PML-N&#8217;s Shehbaz Sharif from NA-242 on a MQM-P ticket. KARACHI: On Thursday, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) unveiled a list of the party&#8217;s candidates running for seats in the National Assembly from Karachi. The 16 candidates from MQM-P would run for 18 NA seats in the megalopolis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[2509,4532,4156,367],"class_list":["post-22552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-mqm-p","tag-mustafa-kamal","tag-muttahida-qaumi-movement-pakistan","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}