Pildat asks parties to select youth for polls

ISLAMABAD: Pildat President Ahmed Bilal Mehboob in a letter has urged to leaders of various political parties of Pakistan to pick greater number of young candidates for the upcoming election.

The letter addressed to the heads of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN), Pakistan Peoples’ Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (JUIP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQMP), Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP), Awami National Party (ANP), Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and National Party (NP) carried the statistics of young candidates fielded by these parties in the last General Election of 2018 and pleaded with them to increase the number of young candidates for national and provincial assemblies in the coming elections.

In his letter, Pildat president presented the study of the 2018 general election conducted by Pildat and shared number of young candidates fielded by each party in the 2018 election.

According to the study conducted by Pildat, TLP fielded the highest percentage of young candidates in 2018 with a total to 537 candidates for National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies out of which 194 (36%) candidates were of the age group of 25-35 years.