Imran Khan to contest from 33 seats in Pakistan National Assembly bypoll

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and previous high minister Imran Khan has determined to contest National Assembly bypoll from all 33 vacant seats, senior celebration chief Shah Mahmood Qureshi stated. Addressing a press convention in Lahore on Sunday evening, PTI vice-chairman and previous overseas minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi stated the selection turned into taken all through the celebration’s middle committee assembly.

“Imran Khan may be PTI’s sole candidate in all 33 parliamentary seats. The selection turned into taken withinside the celebration’s middle committee assembly which turned into presided over with the aid of using Khan at Zaman Park Lahore on Sunday,” Qureshi stated.

Earlier this month, PTI chief Fawad Chaudhry had stated on Twitter that Khan may be the celebration’s candidate on all thrity-3 seats. The very last selection turned into taken after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) introduced on Friday that with the aid of using-polls for 33 vacant National Assembly seats might be hung on March 16.

Of the 33 vacant seats in decrease house, 12 are from Punjab province, 8 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 3 from Islamabad, 9 from Sindh, and one from Balochistan.

The PTI lawmakers had resigned en masse from Pakistan National Assembly after Imran Khan’s ouster in April 2022.

The National Assembly speaker, however, receive most effective eleven resignations declaring that he had to for my part affirm if the lawmakers had been resigning in their personal accord. In October final year, Khan contested 8 parliamentary seats and gained six of them.

Last month, National Assembly speaker Ashraf generic the resignations of 35 PTI lawmakers, and then the ECP de-notified them. The speaker later generic any other 35 (and ECP de-notified them), and the closing forty three resignations of PTI lawmakers after Imran Khan introduced returning to the National Assembly to place Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to the check of a vote of confidence.

The ECP has but to de-notify forty three PTI lawmakers. If the ECP de-notifies the closing forty three PTI lawmakers, Khan’s celebration might be definitely worn out of the National Assembly.