PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has decided not to contest the general polls on Peshawar’s NA-1 constituency.
Imran Khan had won the contest on same constitu
ency in 2013 general election but, later
on, ANP’s Ghulam Ahmed Balur beat PTI candidate in by-polls.
PTI supporters in KP, especially in Peshawar, have demanded their leader to contest the next elections from NA-1 constit
uency but Imran Khan has declined the request and decided that Haji Shouka
t Ali to be contesting on key seat in Peshawar.
Former Town Nazim Haji Shauka
t Ali joined PTI last month.
Imran Khan welcomed Shauka
t Ali in his party, saying that the country needs young and
energetic leadership.