KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz will visit Karachi on April 24 to lead the election campaign of party’s candidate Miftah Ismail in the NA-249 constituency.
According to details, Maryam Nawaz, who was unwell for the past few days, will visit the NA-249 constituency. “A big power show will be held in area and Maryam Nawaz will address the participants of the PML-N rally there,” sources said.
The rally will be the PML-N’s first grand show after a rift in the opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) over the issue of en masse resignations from the assemblies.
Sources further said that Maryam will also be holding meetings with the editors of newspapers, business community and her party’s leaders during her visit to the metropolis.
The NA-249 seat had fallen vacant after PTI’s Faisal Vawda had stepped down as an MNA to assume the role of a senator. There are 339,552 registered voters in the constituency, where 277 polling stations have been set up.
All of these polling stations have been declared either sensitive or highly sensitive. On April 15, Federal Ministry of Interior issued orders for deployment of paramilitary rangers at polling stations during by-election in the constituency.
The PML-N has fielded former finance minister Miftah Ismail in the by-poll, against PTI’s Amjad Iqbal Afridi, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Qadir Khan Mandokhail, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Muhammad Mursaleen, Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief Mustafa Kamal and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP’s) Nazir Ahmed.
