{"id":541972,"date":"2026-04-16T00:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=541972"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:23:15","slug":"initial-list-of-candidates-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/initial-list-of-candidates-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial list of candidates issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate general seat by polls KP<br \/>\n PESHAWAR<br \/>\nInitial list of candidates for Senate General seat in KP has been issued. 6 candidates are in field for Senate seat by polls. The candidates are Irfan Saleem, Abdul Haseeb, Asghar Ali, Raheela Bibi, Sajjad Khan Mohmand and Ghulam Badshah. Irfan Salim is PTI Candidate, Maulana Abdul Haseeb from JUI-F, Asghar Ali from PML-N and Raheela Bibi is PPP candidate. According to provincial election commission the nomination papers can be withdrawn till April 17,. By polls on vacant general seat of Senate will take place on April 23.<br \/>\nIt is pertinent to mention this seat had fallen vacant due to disqualification of Murad Saeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate general seat by polls KP PESHAWAR Initial list of candidates for Senate General seat in KP has been issued. 6 candidates are in field for Senate seat by polls. The candidates are Irfan Saleem, Abdul Haseeb, Asghar Ali, Raheela Bibi, Sajjad Khan Mohmand and Ghulam Badshah. Irfan Salim is PTI Candidate, Maulana Abdul Haseeb [&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-541972","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>Initial list of candidates issued<\/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\/initial-list-of-candidates-issued\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Initial list of candidates issued\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate general seat by polls KP PESHAWAR Initial list of candidates for Senate General seat in KP has been issued. 6 candidates are in field for Senate seat by polls. 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