PTI confirms its candidates for LB elections in cantonment area

Lahore: Tehrik-e-Insaaf has confirmed its candidates for local bodies’ elections in cantonment area of Lahore.

District President PTI Abdul Aleem Khan told in this regard that  it was indeed tough decision to be taken by the parliamentary board to choose right candidate and maximum consultation was made before announcement which would merit and other criteria.

As per detail issued by the Lahore PTI Office in PP 156 Lahore Cant Ward 1 Muhammad Ali Khan, Ward 2 Ch. Ikhlaq Husain, Ward 3 Rasheed Ahmed, Ward 4 Faisal Faryad, Ward 5 Syed Ihrat Husain, Ward 6 Muhammad Taimoor Akhtar and Lahore Cantt Ward 7 Ch. Muhammad Umar Akbar have been given party tickets while in Walton Cantt Ward 1 Muhammad Ihsan Mahmood Butt, Ward 2 Malik Tahir Mahmood and Walton Cantt Ward 5 Ch. Muhammad Akbar Gujjar has been given party tickets. Similarly, in PP 155, in Walton Cantt Ward 3 Faisal Hakim Bhatti, Ward 4 Muhammad Aslam Jutt, Ward 7 Azmat Ullah Waraich, Ward 8 Irshad Mahmood Khan, Ward 9 Sheikh Basharat Ali have been given party tickets. In Lahore Cantt Ward 8 Ch. Dilshad Akbar and Ward 10 Ilyas Ali Bhatti have got party tickets in PP 155 of Cantt Town.

All these candidates held a call on with the District President Abdul Aleem Khan at party office here today and thanked him on the trust shown by the party. They expressed determination to get victory on April 25, with thumping majority.

Abdul Aleem Khan said that on party based local bodies elections’ would be clear defeat for the ruling party and youth and women would play their vital role from PTI platform. It is mentionable that in parliamentary board of PTI, Shoaib Siddiquee, Awais Younas, Hafiz Farhat Abbass and Dr. Zarqa Taimur made recommendations of party candidates who were finally given tickets. Detail report in this regard has also been sent to party Chairman Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Jehangir Tareen in their office at Islamabad by Lahore Office.