Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan
Banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan fields candidates in cantonment board polls
Islamabad: Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), the Islamist group banned by the Pakistan government several months ago, has now fielded 84 candidates in 17 of the 41 cantonments where polling will be held on Sunday to elect general members of the cantonment board, media reports said.
A careful analysis of the list of candidates of all the 219 wards shows that the ultra TLP has fielded largest number of 57 candidates in nine cantonments of the Punjab, followed by 24 in six cantonments of Sindh and three candidates in two cantonments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reports Dawn News.
The group did not field any candidate in any of the nine wards of the three cantonments in Balochistan.
The TLP is in the fifth position as far as number of contesting candidates are concerned as the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has fielded the highest number of 178 candidates, followed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) whose 140 candidates are in the run, whereas Pakistan Peoples Party (112 candidates) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) 105 candidates, Dawn News reported.
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