{"id":311349,"date":"2023-02-03T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=311349"},"modified":"2023-02-03T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:46:43","slug":"imran-khan-not-to-contest-na-193-by-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/imran-khan-not-to-contest-na-193-by-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan not to contest NA-193 by-polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominates Mohsin Leghari for Rajanpur\u2019s NA-193 by-poll<br \/>\n LAHORE<br \/>\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former premier Imran Khan will not contest by-polls in the NA-193 Rajanpur constituency.<br \/>\nThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will take part in the NA-193 by-polls while Imran Khan will not contest the by-election on the said seat. The political party issued ticket to former provincial minister Sardar Mohsin Leghari for the upcoming by-polls scheduled for February 26.<br \/>\nMr Leghari is nephew of Sardar Muhammad Jaffer Khan Leghari whose death left the seat vacant. He has also served as Finance Minister in the PTI\u2019s provincial cabinet in Punjab.<br \/>\nMohsin Leghari said in the statement that the party has decided to make him the candidate and the top leadership also informed him in this regard. He said that he has continued campaigning in the said constituency.<br \/>\nMPA Awais Khan Leghari, while reacting to the PTI chief\u2019s withdrawal of nomination papers, claimed that Mr Khan had withdrawn his papers as he was sure of his defeat. Mr Awais is the cousin of Mr Mohsin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominates Mohsin Leghari for Rajanpur\u2019s NA-193 by-poll LAHORE Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former premier Imran Khan will not contest by-polls in the NA-193 Rajanpur constituency. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will take part in the NA-193 by-polls while Imran Khan will not contest the by-election on the said seat. The political party issued ticket to [&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-311349","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>Imran Khan not to contest NA-193 by-polls<\/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\/imran-khan-not-to-contest-na-193-by-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imran Khan not to contest NA-193 by-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nominates Mohsin Leghari for Rajanpur\u2019s NA-193 by-poll LAHORE Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former premier Imran Khan will not contest by-polls in the NA-193 Rajanpur constituency. 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