Delawar Jan
PESHAWAR: Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has fielded unfamiliar faces in Peshawar who are overconfident
about their win against political heavyweights.
Party chief Imran Khan
had promised with people to award tickets to new faces and young people to create
a new Pakistan. He had created a fund for running campaign for young and new
candidates, but almost all of the candidates in Peshawar said they had not
received financial support from the party.
Nevertheless, they said
the party’s Tabdeeli Razakar have been campaigning for them in their
constituencies. The PTI candidates said they had been receiving ‘overwhelming’
response from people during the election campaign. The response has made them overconfident about
winning their seats. Though
the PTI opponents underrate them, the Tehreek-e-Insaf candidates can surprise
them with upsets in election in view of Imran’s growing support in the masses.
The faces are so new
that they had hardly figured at election contests in the provincial metropolis.
Most of candidates don’t come from political families and have no, or little,
experience in electoral politics. Even most of them are unknown to party
leaders and activists in Peshawar. PTI does not have their profile, but the
candidates are convinced that the PTI ‘tsunami’ is going to succeed them on May
11.
This story brings
profiles of some of the candidates contesting on four National Assembly and 11
provincial assembly seats from Peshawar.
Hamidul Haq
He is founding member
of the party who has been fielded on NA-2. The 49-year-old has a degree of BSc
civil engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar
that he completed in 1988. According to him, his family that hails from Tehkal Bala
has never engaged in politics, and he has also not contested election before.
He is confident of win.
Ziaullah Afridi
He joined PTI in
January 2012 and is contesting from PK-1. Born in 1972 in Momin Town, he has
studied up to intermediate. He does not come from a political family but now
testing fortune from the PTI platform. He said people’s feedback was
encouraging and that he has 75 per cent chances of win.
Shah Farman
Shah Farman, 48, is
founding member of the party and is contesting from PK-10. He hails from Badber
and has done LLB. His family, according to him, has never remained in politics.
He has served the party’s secretary general and information secretary. He ran
election for the post of secretary general in the intra-party polls but lost.
Yaseen Khalil
Contesting from PK-5,
he is PTI’s district Peshawar president. He joined PTI in 2011after resigning
from PPP. He held the position of nazim Town-III in the first term of local
bodies elections in Musharraf regime. He is expected to put up a tough contest
against PPP’s Arbab Alamgir and ANP’s Arbab Tahir.
Shaukat Ali Yousafzai
A founding member, he
hails from Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He served as political
adviser to Imran Khan and currently holds the party’s provincial secretary
general’s position that he won in the intra-party election. He has also been made
in-charge election campaign for Imran Khan who is contesting from NA-1. He is
contesting from PK-2 Peshawar and PK-87 Shangla. He contested election from
Shangla on PTI ticket in 1997. He is a journalist by profession and heads an
Urdu-language newspaper as Editor in Chief. He studied in Peshawar’s
Agriculture University.
Mahmood Jan
He is also a new face
who has been fielded on PK-7 after he joined the party in October 2011. His
grandfather had affiliation with Muslim League and served its NWFP Salar.
Mahmood Jan, 43, holds a bachelor’s degree.
Syed Ishtiaq
The 43-year-old is
contesting from PK-11. He also holds B.A. degree. He is founding member of PTI
who has contested election from the party ticket in 1997. According to him, he
had secured 4,333 votes in that election. He belongs to Urmar area of Peshawar.
Fazal Elahi
He is contesting from
PK-6. Though he could only study up to 10-grade, he is also one of the founding
members of the party in Peshawar. He won election for the president of Town-IV in
the intra-party election. Though he has remained nazim Hazarkhwani union
council, he does not hail from a political family
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