High pitched campaign
\nAPP
\nKOHAT
\nAs scheduled general elections are 13 days away, electioneering has picked up the pace on one national assembly and three provincial assembly seats of Kohat.
\nTicket-holders of political parties and independent candidates have launched a high pitched campaign leaving no stone unturned to ensure their win.
\nWorkers of political parties and supports of independent candidates are displaying party\u2019s flags and posters on their vehicles, houses and shops. Youth are seen wearing caps and batches of political parties they supporting.
\nDue to inclement weather in day time, candidates are holding corner meetings and rallies in the evening to reach out voters. Cars and motorbikes rallies is part of campaign of show strengthen and attract voters.
\nThe provincial and central leadership of various political parties have planned to address big rallies to woo voters.
\nIn the corner meetings, candidates are seen making pledges to resolve local issue like shortage of drinking water, schools and health facilities.
\nBlame-game, allegations and counter allegations between rival candidates is the common feature of election campaign.
\nLocal leadership of political parties is making hectic efforts to win support of influential political families, social workers and notable of the area in favor of their candidates.
\nCandidates are using all means of publicity including messages on social media to win heart and mind of voters.
\nMany candidates have uploaded their video messages on their Facebook pages as part of their efforts to convey their message to large segment of society.
\nLast ditched efforts are being made to convince independent candidates to withdraw from elections in their favour.
\nCandidates of mainstream political parties have geared up their election campaign to mobilize their voters and supporters to strengthen the prospects of their electoral victory.
\nThis time around, tough and nail biting competition is expected in NA-32 constituency between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA).
\nThe PTI has given a ticket to its former MNA from this constituency Shehryar Afridi, PML-N has fielded Abbas Afridi while Gohar Muhammad Khan is contesting on MMA ticket.
\nIn 2013 elections, Shehryar Afridi had bagged 61,742 votes, Gohar Mohammad, Khan who had contested election from JUI-F platform, secured 31,886 and Malik Asad of PML-N got 13,670 votes.
\nShamim Afridi, the father of now PML-N candidate Abbas Afridi, had contested election as an independent candidate and obtained 19,056 votes.
\nThe PTI is confident to retain this seat on basis of KP government\u2019s performance in which a number of development schemes, including carpeting and widening of roads were done.
\nImran Khan also addressed a huge rally in Kohat last week which charged PTI workers especially the youth.
\nGohar Muhammad Khan, who was the runner-up in last general elections, is enthusiastically running his campaign in both urban and rural areas of the constituency and is quite optimistic about his win.
\nAbbas Afridi, on the other hand, provided new gas and electricity connections to many villages and localities during the tenure of PML-N government. Besides that, as a senator, he also carried out development work and distributed hundreds of transformers in the area.
\nAbbas claimed that people would vote for him on the basis of his services and performance.
\nAll three political parties are contesting elections with a strong panel on three provincial assembly seats that fall under NA-32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
High pitched campaign APP KOHAT As scheduled general elections are 13 days away, electioneering has picked up the pace on one national assembly and three provincial assembly seats of Kohat. Ticket-holders of political parties and independent candidates have launched a high pitched campaign leaving no stone unturned to ensure their win. Workers of political parties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n