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Candidates to simultaneously contest NA, K-P Assembly seats
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Shahid Hamid January 31, 2024  

PESHAWAR:

The merged districts of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)
are poised for another historic milestone as the next general elections
approach on February 8. For the first time in their history, polling for both
National Assembly and provincial legislature seats will occur simultaneously.

In 2019, another significant milestone was achieved when 16 seats of the tribal
districts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly were contested for the first
time after their merger with the province. The inaugural elections for the
provincial assembly seats from the merged districts occurred on July 18, 2019,
a year after the general polls of July 25, 2018.

It's worth noting that Bajaur, which had two NA seats in the 2018 general
elections, now has one seat following last year's constituency delimitation.

In 2019, independent candidates dominated the provincial polls by securing

six seats, followed by the PTI with five. The candidates of the JUI-F bagged
three seats while the ANP and Jamat-e-Islami (JI) both won one each.

Three independent candidates joined the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and
formed a new parliamentary party in the province.

Of the four reserved seats for women from the merged districts, the PTI
secured two while the JUI-F and BAP both acquired one each.

The lone reserved seat for minorities was also bagged by the PTI.

According to the results of the 2019 polls, the winners included PTI’s Anwar
Zeb Khan from PK-100 Bajaur-I, PTI’s Ajmal Khan from PK-101 Bajaur-II, JI’s
Sirajuddin Khan from PK-102 Bajaur-III, ANP’s Nisar Ahmed from PK-103
Mohmand-I, independent candidate Abbas Rehman from PK-104 Mohmand-
II, and independent candidate Shafiq Afridi from PK-105 Khyber-I.

Others who emerged victorious included independent candidate Bilawal Afridi

from PK-106 Khyber-II, independent candidate Mohammad Shafiq from PK-
107 Khyber-III, JUI-F’s Muhammad Riaz from PK-108 Kurram-I, and PTI’s
Syed Iqbal Mian from PK-109 Kurram-I.

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The list continues with independent candidate Syed Ghazi Ghazan Jamal
securing a win from PK-110 Orakzai, PTI’s Muhammad Iqbal Khan from PK-
111 North Waziristan-I, independent candidate Mir Kalam Wazir from PK-112
North Waziristan-II, JUI-F’s Hafiz Isamuddin from PK-113 South Waziristan-
I, PTI’s Naseerullah Khan from PK-114 South Waziristan-II, and JUI-F’s
Muhammad Shoaib from PK-115 Ex-Frontier Regions.

As the February 8 elections draw closer, the merged districts brace for yet
another chapter in their political journey, marking a significant milestone in
the region's democratic history.

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