{"id":513179,"date":"2025-11-08T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=513179"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:16:12","slug":"nine-candidates-to-contest-na-18-haripur-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/nine-candidates-to-contest-na-18-haripur-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine candidates to contest NA-18 Haripur by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> PESHAWAR<br \/>\nThe Provincial Election Commissioner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has announced that nine candidates will contest the upcoming by-election in NA-18 Haripur.<br \/>\nAccording to the spokesperson of the Provincial Election Commissioner\u2019s office, election symbols have been allotted to all contesting candidates.<br \/>\nThe candidates include Irum Fatima of PPP Parliamentarians<br \/>\nAsad Usman Independent, Babar Nawaz of PMLN, Khurshid Anwar Khan independent,<br \/>\nRustam Khan of Hazara Qaumi Mahaz Pakistan, Syed Ali Zawar Hussain Naqvi independent, Shehrnaz Omar Ayub independent, Abdul Shakoor of Pakistan Nazriyati Party and Muhammad Sarwar independent.<br \/>\nThe polling for the NA-18 Haripur by-election is scheduled to be held on November 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR The Provincial Election Commissioner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has announced that nine candidates will contest the upcoming by-election in NA-18 Haripur. According to the spokesperson of the Provincial Election Commissioner\u2019s office, election symbols have been allotted to all contesting candidates. The candidates include Irum Fatima of PPP Parliamentarians Asad Usman Independent, Babar Nawaz of PMLN, Khurshid [&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-513179","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>Nine candidates to contest NA-18 Haripur by-election<\/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\/nine-candidates-to-contest-na-18-haripur-by-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nine candidates to contest NA-18 Haripur by-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PESHAWAR The Provincial Election Commissioner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has announced that nine candidates will contest the upcoming by-election in NA-18 Haripur. 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