{"id":279269,"date":"2022-08-25T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=279269"},"modified":"2022-08-25T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:03:23","slug":"not-pulled-out-of-race-for-na-31-ghulam-bilour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/not-pulled-out-of-race-for-na-31-ghulam-bilour\/","title":{"rendered":"Not pulled out of race for NA-31: Ghulam Bilour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> PESHAWAR<br \/>\nThe central leader of Awami National Party Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has rubbished the rumors that he pulled himself out of the race for NA-31, Peshawar seat in upcoming by-elections.<br \/>\nIn a statement issued from Bacha Khan Markaz here on Wednesday, Haji Gulam Bilour said \u201ci have not withdrawn my candidature and am ready to contest for the seat,\u201d adding that all reports in this regard were baseless.<br \/>\nAs Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has also submitted his nomination papers for the same constituency, a tough contest is expected in the upcoming by-elections.<br \/>\nThe seat fell vacant after the resignation of PTI Member of National Assembly Shaukat Ali was accepted by National Assembly Speaker Raja Parvaiz Ashraf with three other MNAs from KP.<br \/>\nIt is pertinent to mention here that by-elections will be held in four constituencies in the province including NA-22 Mardan, NA-24 Charsadda, NA-31 Peshawar and NA-45 Kurram, on September 25.<br \/>\nPTI chairman Imran Khan, who had submitted nomination papers for all aforementioned constituencies, will face Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) joint candidates in the by-polls.<br \/>\nIn the 2013 general elections, Ghulam Bilour and Imran Khan contested polls against each other from the same constituency, then NA-1.<br \/>\nImran Khan obtained 90,434 votes and Gulam Bilour secured 24,449 votes in the elections. Later the seat was vacated by PTI chairman and ANP candidate Gulam Bilour remained successful in the by-polls.<br \/>\nIn the 2018 election, Haji Gulam Bilour again lost the elections to PTI candidate Shaukat Ali by a heavy margin.<br \/>\nBesides Imran Khan and Haji Gulam Bilour, eight other candidates are also in the run for the NA-31 in the by-elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR The central leader of Awami National Party Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has rubbished the rumors that he pulled himself out of the race for NA-31, Peshawar seat in upcoming by-elections. In a statement issued from Bacha Khan Markaz here on Wednesday, Haji Gulam Bilour said \u201ci have not withdrawn my candidature and am ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Not pulled out of race for NA-31: Ghulam Bilour<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/not-pulled-out-of-race-for-na-31-ghulam-bilour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not pulled out of race for NA-31: Ghulam Bilour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PESHAWAR The central leader of Awami National Party Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has rubbished the rumors that he pulled himself out of the race for NA-31, Peshawar seat in upcoming by-elections. 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