Three women among 40 candidates for PK-1
BOONI: As many as 40 candidates filed nomination papers for the provincial assembly seat of PK-1 Chitral Upper, according to a list of the returning officer available with ChitralToday.
Three women are among the aspirants for the seat.
According to the list, the names of the candidates are as follow:
Suriya Bibi, resident of Mandagh Awi, Upper Chitral; Rehmat Ghazi Khan, Charun, Miraj Khan, Morder, Hizbullah, Zait village, Ghulam Muhammad, Booni, Syed Jamal Shah, Morech, Rech; Syed Mukhtar Ali Shah, Birzoz Yarkhun; Mumtaz Ali Qazi, Chuinj, Muhammad Wazir, Kushum, Mulkhow; Siraj Ali Khan, Khuz, Khalilullah, Werkhop, Sher Hussain, Zait, Abdul Latif, Lot Owir, Sahibuddin, Songush Owir, Mulkhow; Adnan Ali, Shusht, Yarkhun; Sher Wazir Khan, Morder, Kosht; Rahmat Karim Baig, Zondrangram, Terich; Bibi Latifa, Chuinj, Naveed Suktan, Ujnu, Torkhow; Gul Murad Khan, Birziz, Yarkhun; Imtiaz Alam, Booni; Javed Hussain, Drasun, Mulkhow; Muhammad Faisal Khan, Booni.
Muhammad Haroon, Nishko, Torkhow; Mir Shoaib Khurshid Mir, Shagram Torkhow; Muhammad Asif Uddin, Shagram, Shakeel Ahmed, Nishko, Hidayatur Rehman, Nogram Mulkhow; Muhammad Talha Mahmood, Khanpur, district Haripur; Zar Bahar, Meragram No 2; Shah Nadir Khan, Kuragh; Bibi Sara, Parwak; Syed Amir Hussain Shah, Greenlasht, Reshun; Syed Nasir Ali Shah, Harchin, Laspur; Mukhtar Nabi, Terich Payeen; Shahzada Sikendarul Mulk, Mastuj; Allauddin, Terch, Anwar Alu, Parkusap, Muhammad Yousuf, Muxgol, Mulkhow, and Burhanuddin, Owir.
Meanwhile, the two-day extension in the deadline for filing of nomination papers concluded on Sunday.
As per the schedule, scrutiny of the nomination papers will be carried out from tomorrow to the 30th of this month.
Appeals against the acceptance or rejection of nomination papers can be submitted until the 3rd of January and decisions on these appeals will be made by the 10th of January.
The list of candidates will be displayed on the 11th of January, and candidates would have the option to withdraw until the 12th of January.
The electoral symbols will be allotted on the 13th of January, and polling for the general elections will be held the 8th of February.
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Filing of so many nomination papers makes the election process a joke. There should be a non-returnable filing fee of Rs 2 lacs for PA and Rs 5 lacs for NA. Nowadays contesting an election means spending millions. The application fee should be in consonance with reality. That way non serious fun seekers would be sifted out right in the begining and unnecessary long and confusing ballot papers would be done away, leaving only serious contenders in the field.