Candidates from Attock, Taxila file papers for Punjab Assembly polls.

TAXILA -- A large number of potential candidates, most of them belonging to PTI and PML-N, visited offices of returning officers (RO) in Taxila, Hassanabdal, Attock, Hazro and Pindigheb to file their nomination papers for Punjab Assembly elections.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has extended the date for filing nomination papers.

It has been observed that the majority of the candidates belonged to PTI, followed by those of the PML-N and the PPP.

Local sources said that the party tickets of most of the potential candidates were under consideration by their respective leaderships.

According to District Election Commissioner Umer Khattab candidates belonging to the same political party have filed their nomination papers and party symbol would be allotted only to those who succeedrd in securing the party ticket.

For PP-1, Hazro over 10 candidates, mostly from PTI, have filed their nomination papers. Prominent among them were former provincial minister Jehangir Khanzada from PML, Qazi Ahmed Akbar, Changaiz Khan, former special assistant to prime minister Malik Amin Aslam, Shamsher Aslam Khan from PTI, Jabir Ali Khan from JI, Mukhtar Khan from TLP and Tariq Nawaz from PPP.

For Hassanabdal PP-2, over 25 candidates, mostly from PTI have filed their nomination papers...