Senior Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Mian Aslam Iqbal, after consultations with the party’s high command, on Thursday announced the names of the party candidates from Punjab for the upcoming Senate elections. The PTI has given tickets to a party stalwart, Hamid Khan, who is also a senior lawyer, and Zulfi Bukhari, another party loyalist, for general seats, while it has nominated Colonel (r) Ijaz Minhas as its covering candidate for these seats. Similarly, the party has fielded former adviser on accountability Brigadier (r) Musaddiq as its candidate for a technocrat seat. Likewise, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, who is currently incarcerated in connection with the incidents of May 9 violence, has been named as the party’s candidate on a woman’s seat.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)