Mumbai Terror Assault Mastermind Hafiz Saeed-Backed Celebration To Contest All Seats In Basic Elections In Pakistan

Islamabad, Dec 25: Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), a political entity of the 26/11 terror assaults mastermind and founding father of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, has fielded candidates for each nationwide and provincial meeting constituency throughout Pakistan for the upcoming common elections slated to be held on February 8, 2024.
Hafiz Saeed’s son Talha Saeed can also be going to contest the polls from Nationwide Meeting’s constituency NA-127, Lahore, whereas PMML’s central president Khalid Masood Sindhu is participating from NA-130, towards Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
Muhammad Hafiz Saeed, who’s in jail since July 17, 2019, for different prices, was sentenced in April 2022 by a particular anti-terrorism courtroom in Lahore, Pakistan, to a jail time period of 33 years for “financing terrorism.”
Regardless of being designated a terrorist by the UN and EU within the 2000s, Saeed was neither charged nor extradited over almost 20 years, the Taipei-based analyst identified.
Hafiz Saeed’s son Talha Saeed can also be going to contest the polls from Nationwide Meeting’s constituency NA-127, Lahore, whereas PMML’s central president Khalid Masood Sindhu is participating from NA-130, towards Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
In a notification dated April 8, the MHA stated Hafiz Talha Saeed was a senior chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and head of the cleric wing of the fear outfit. Talha Saeed has been “actively concerned in recruitment, fund assortment, planning and executing assaults by LeT in India and Indian pursuits in Afghanistan.
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It reported quoting the PMML spokesperson, Tabish Qayyum, that that they had pitched their candidates for all Nationwide Meeting and provincial seats throughout the nation, “We’ve left no seat uncontested.”
Nevertheless, he stated that his get together might be able to make seat changes if and when contacted, Daybreak reported.
The PMML had taken half as Milli Muslim League, the political face of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa, within the 2018 common election but it surely failed to indicate any promising outcomes from any constituency.
The PMML emerged after the Milli League was banned by the federal government.
Qayyum stated that the get together’s senior vp, Faisal Nadeem, is contesting from NA-235, Karachi, finance secretary AR Naqvi from PP-156, Hafiz Abdul Rauf for NA-119, Khalid Naik Gujjar for PP-162, Punjab common secretary Muzamil Iqbal Hashmi from NA-77, Gujranwala.
In the meantime, after the prolonged deadline for submitting nomination papers for nationwide and provincial constituencies ended on Sunday night, the 2024 common elections entered the subsequent part, based on Daybreak.
Because the last lists of eligible candidates contesting elections might be made public by the Pakistan Election Fee when the vetting course of is accomplished within the coming days, intense competitors is predicted in a number of constituencies.
Many candidates or their representatives went to the places of work of their respective returning officers in Punjab to file nomination papers.
Citing reviews, Daybreak reported that as many as 600 candidates filed nomination papers for Lahore’s 14 Nationwide Meeting and 30 provincial constituencies.
Those that filed papers included Atta Tarar (PML-N), Ijaz Buttar (PTI) and Asif Hashmi (PPP) in NA-117; Hamza Shehbaz (PML-N) and Muhammad Madni (PTI) in NA-118; Maryam Nawaz (PML-N), Aleem Khan (IPP) and Hafiz Rauf in NA-119; Maryam Nawaz, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Atta Tarar in NA 120 and Sheikh Rohail Asghar, Ayaz Sadiq and Ch Javaid in NA 121.
Imran Khan, Sardar Latif Khosa, Azhar Siddique, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Salman Rafiq, and Hafiz Talha filed nomination papers in NA-122, whereas Shehbaz Sharif and Liaqat Baloch filed nomination papers in NA-123, based on Daybreak. (Companies)