PTI candidates submit papers in Mansehra

MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidates on Saturday submitted nomination papers with the returning officers concerned.

“Ours is a peaceful struggle against this outdated system imposed on us for the last 70 years. We are not against any institution, and want supremacy of the Constitution and political and human rights enshrined in it,” Munir Hussain Lughmani, an aspirant for PK-36, told mediamen outside the court premises here.

The PTI aspirants were taken to court premises in a gathering to file nomination papers with their respective returning officers. They raised slogans in support of PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan.

Nomination papers of PTI’s divisional president Babar Saleem Swati, Kamal Saleem Swati, Munir Hussain Lughmani, Shahid Rafique and others were submitted on the occasion.

Lughmani, who is a former president of the district bar association and member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, alleged that nomination papers were snatched from the PTI aspirants and condemned the practice.

“The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Election Commission of Pakistan should take notice of nomination papers snatching incidents as a local candidate Najmul Hassan also faced the same situation here but we would never deviate from our mission,” he said.

Lughmani said there was an impressive gathering here whose participants marched all the way here from the PTI Secretariat and remained peaceful.