KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has denied reports of any seat adjustment in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) constituency NA-242 in Karachi.
“The reports regarding seat adjustment in NA-242 Karachi are not true,” Siqqdiui said, adding that Senior Deputy Convener Mustafa Kamal is contesting as MQM-P candidate from the constituency.
A day earlier, it was reported that MQM-P had entered into seat arrangement with PML-N for three NA constituencies, including NA-242, where PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif is also contesting the election.
Sources said apart from Shehbaz, the PML-N will field its candidates on five NA seats – including NA-229, 230 and 239 – as well as 11 provincial seats within these constituencies.
Meanwhile, MQM-P candidates would contest the polls for National and Provincial Assembly seats from Malir’s NA-231 constituency, they said.
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Sources added that the Karachi-based party will field its candidates for provincial seats under NA-242 constituency.
On 29 December, Shehbaz announced that he would file his nomination papers for the upcoming general elections from the NA-242 constituency in Karachi, where Kamal had also filed his papers.
Shehbaz contested from the NA-249 constituency in Karachi in the 2018 general elections, which he lost to then Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda by a narrow margin.
