{"id":319474,"date":"2023-03-15T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=319474"},"modified":"2023-03-15T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:42:43","slug":"maryam-hamza-to-contest-punjab-assembly-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/maryam-hamza-to-contest-punjab-assembly-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryam, Hamza to contest Punjab Assembly elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE<br \/>\nPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President former Punjab chief minister Hamza Shahbaz have decided to contest Punjab Assembly elections.<br \/>\nAccording to sources, the PML-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif will contest election on PP-146 seat while former Punjab CM Hamza Shahbaz will contest the poll from PP-150 According to party insiders, their nomination papers would be filed today (Tuesday).<br \/>\nPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza returned to Pakistan after spending three months with his family in US and London. Hamza Shahbaz Sharif reached Lahore\u2019s Allama Iqbal International Airport in the wee hours of Tuesday where he was warmly welcomed by the PML-N local leaders.<br \/>\nThe former Punjab chief minister returned home after ECP announced Punjab Assembly elections on April 30. mSources privy to the development said that Hamza would be given a key responsibility for PML-N\u2019s electoral campaign in Punjab.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Parliamentary Board of Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) will start awarding tickets to candidates in Punjab for the provincial election from March 15. In this connection, PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah Khan directed all divisional and district organisations of the party to ensure active interaction with the public.<br \/>\nAccording to the election schedule, candidates could submit their nomination papers from March 12 to 14, while scrutiny of the papers will be held on March 22. The candidates could withdraw their nomination papers up to April 05 and election symbols to candidates will be allotted on April 06, the ECP announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President former Punjab chief minister Hamza Shahbaz have decided to contest Punjab Assembly elections. According to sources, the PML-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif will contest election on PP-146 seat while former Punjab CM Hamza Shahbaz will contest the poll from PP-150 According to party insiders, their nomination [&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-319474","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>Maryam, Hamza to contest Punjab Assembly elections<\/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\/maryam-hamza-to-contest-punjab-assembly-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maryam, Hamza to contest Punjab Assembly elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President former Punjab chief minister Hamza Shahbaz have decided to contest Punjab Assembly elections. 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