Lahore (August 25, 2017): Pakistan Awami Tehreek on Friday announced to withdraw its candidate from NA-120 by-elections in favour of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
On Friday, a PTI delegation led by Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly called on PAT leaders at Minhajul Quran Secretariat.
After holding negotiations between the leaders of two parties, PAT announced to withdraw it candidate in favour of Dr Yasmeen Rashid, PTI candidate for NA-120 by-elections.
PAT candidate Ishtiaq Chaudhry announced to withdraw in favor of PTI while talking to media after the meeting between the two parties leader.
Rasheed thanked PAT candidate and leadership for supporting PTI in the by-elections. He said that the by-election was between oppressed and oppressors. He added that the incumbent government had failed miserably.
Dr Rashid said that NA-120 elections would be a victory of true democracy.
PML-N has fielded Kulsoom Nawaz as its candidate for NA-120 by-elections. Though, candidates of other parties and independents are also in the run the actual contest is expected to be between PTI’s Yasmeen Rashid and Kulsoom Nawaz.
The NA-120 seat fell vacant after former premier Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case on July 28.
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