KARACHI:  List of candidates for NA-246 by-poll in MQM’s stronghold of Azizabad, Karachi was issued on Thursday.  According to details, the list includes 15 names of candidates who will contest in the by-election.

The final list includes the names of Kanwar Naveed Jameel of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf’s (PTI’s) Imran Ismail, Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI’s) Rashid Naseem, Aslam Shah, Ashraf Qureshi, Mehfuz Yar Khan, Pervaiz Ali, Hassan Pervaiz, Syed Azhar-ul-Hassan Qadri, Syed Usman Ali, Seema Zareen, Abdul Sattar Ansari, Usman Moazzam, Ayub Khan and Munam Zafar whereas two candidates Ateeq Qureshi and Shehzad Majeed have withdrawn from the elections.

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