PTI’s Shahzada Gustasap to face Nawaz in NA-15

MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has awarded election tickets to the former opposition leader in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Shahzada Gustasap Khan, to face Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif after Senator Azam Khan Swati’s nomination papers were rejected by the returning officer concerned.

“Our party’s parliamentary board has decided and awarded a ticket to Gustasap Khan to face Nawaz Sharif in the February 8 elections in NA-15 Mansehra-II,” PTI district president Sardar Khan told the tickets’ distribution ceremony here on Friday.

The ceremony was attended among others by the PTI ticket holders and workers from across the Mansehra district.

Sardar Khan, who gave away tickets to the party’s hopefuls in two national and five provincial assembly constituencies in the district, said that despite facing enormous challenges in the February 8 general elections, his party would form its governments at the centre and four provinces.

Amid cheering and slogans raised by activists in support of the party’s founding chairman Imran Khan, he said that they received a record number of applications from the applicants in Mansehra and other districts in Hazara division.

Sardar Khan said that Imran Saleem Swati was being awarded a party election ticket in NA-14- Mansehra-I.

He also gave away tickets to Munir Hussain Lughmani advocate for PK-36 Mansehra-I, former advisor to Chief Minister Babar Saleem Swati in PK-37, Zahid Chanzeb for PK-38, Akram Ghazi advocate for PK-39 and Abdul Shakoor Lughmani for PK-40.