MANSEHRA: The Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have finalised a seat adjustment formula to jointly contest elections in some constituencies of Mansehra and Torghar districts.

Modalities for the electoral cooperation were finalised during a meeting attended by PPP divisional president Syed Ahmad Hussain Shah and MMA president Syed Hidayatullah Shah and leaders from both sides.

“We have made an electoral alliance with the PPP in Mansehra and Torghar districts to secure the maximum assembly seats,” MMA information secretary Maulana Saeed Abdullah told reporters here on Monday.

He said PPP candidate Shuja Salim Khan withdrew his nomination papersin favour of MMA candidate Mufti Kifayatullah in NA-14 and MMA nominee Attaullah in favour of PPP contender Syed Ahmad Hussain Shah in PK-30.

Expect to grab most seats in election

The MMA leader said the PPP would also support MMA contender Maulana Nasir Mehmood in PK-33 and MMA’s Shaukat Khan in PK-35.

“We expect to win most of two national and six provincial assembly seats in Mansehra and Torghar districts by trouncing the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,” he said.

Former premier Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law retired captain Mohammad Safdar is the PML-N’s candidate in NA-14.

FRAUD: An elderly man from Khushala area here has accused a local group of grabbing his land.

Iqbal Hussan, 80, told reporters here that the group led by Ishaq Shah had fraudulently secured his land measuring four kanals.

He said Ishaq Shah gave him only a Rs1.3 million cheque at the intervention of a local jirga.

The elderly man asked the police’s bosses to step in to help him get back land.

Published in Dawn, July 3rd, 2018