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\u2022 Former ruling party sets up portal featuring its candidates, electoral symbols ISLAMABAD \/ PESHAWAR: After it was deprived of its electoral symbol by the Election Commission, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to capitalise on its strong social media network to remain in touch with its supporters in addition to setting up a portal featuring the party\u2019s candidates alongside their electoral symbols for Feb 8 polls.<\/p>\n In a statement on \u2018X\u2019, formerly Twitter, the former ruling party said a portal to search for candidates and their symbols had been created. \u201cSee video below showing a search for \u2018NA-1\u2019 and the results with candidate name and symbol. We are just waiting for data for each candidate before we go live! #ChallengeAccepted<\/a>,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n PTI Information Secretary Raoof Hasan said the portal would be fully functional within two days. \u201cThere will be two separate portals for the National and provincial assemblies. We will share the links of these portals through social media sites and our voters will be able to identify the national and provincial assembly candidates backed by the PTI for their constituencies,\u201d he told Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mr Hasan said that voters will only need to enter the number of a constituency in the portal and the candidate supported by the PTI along with the symbol will pop up.<\/p>\n
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