Elections 2018: PPP’s Faisal Kundi withdraws in favour of PTI candidate

TANK: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate and former deputy speaker of the National Assembly Faisal Kareem Kundi on Saturday quit the race for NA-37, Tank, in favour of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Habibullah Khan Kundi. Asad Mahmood, son of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, is also in the run from the same constituency.

Faisal Kundi had submitted his nomination papers from NA-37, NA-38 and NA-39. The NA-37 (Tank) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. The constituency was created in 2018 by bifurcating NA-25 (Dera Ismail Khan-cum-Tank) where Tank district shared its representation with a portion of Dera Ismail Khan district. The current constituency completely comprises Tank district while the Dera Ismail Khan areas of the old constituency are now included in NA-39 (Dera Ismail Khan-II).