The 40 candidates of different political parties such as Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Awami Muslim League (AML), MQM, Jammat-e-Islami, PML-Q, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) have submitted their nomination papers to the Returning Officers (ROs) to test their fate for 7 seats of NA in Rawalpindi District. These included PML-N former MNA Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Awami Muslim League (AML) President Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, Jammat-e-Islami (JI) Raza Ahmed Shah, Rizwan Ahmed, Ghulam Murtaza Satti, Raja Israr Abbasi and Mian Ateeq and others.
Similarly, 66 candidates returned their nomination forms to ROs to contest general elections 2013 from 14 seats of Punjab Assembly.
Raja Rashid Hafeez of PTI, Babar Sultan Jadoon, Chaudhry Sarwar Gujjar, Rehana Riaz, Mirza Khalid Mehmood and Engineer Qamar-ul-Islam were the prominent candidates.
A day earlier, PPP nominee Col (retd) Muhammad Shabbir Awan also submitted his nomination papers to RO Muhammad Jahangir Mir from PP-2 along with his lawyers Raja M. Sittar Ullah and Raja Muhammad Nazir Advocate.
According to Deputy Election Commissioner Qazi Zahoor Ahmed, some 164 candidates of different political parties obtained their nomination papers where a total of 106 candidates returned their nomination papers in Rawalpindi District.
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