{"id":48417,"date":"2024-01-16T03:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/na-143-a-four-way-battle-in-sahiwal-to-benefit-pti-backed-candidate\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T03:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:08:05","slug":"na-143-a-four-way-battle-in-sahiwal-to-benefit-pti-backed-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/na-143-a-four-way-battle-in-sahiwal-to-benefit-pti-backed-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"NA-143: A four-way battle in Sahiwal to benefit PTI-backed candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>SAHIWAL: The NA-143 constituency witnesses an intriguing clash as two former PML-N parliamentarians, Tufail Jutt and Chaudhry Zahid Iqbal, Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) candidate Nauman Langrial, and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) backed candidate Rai Hasan Nawaz are in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of two PML-N leaders in the field challenges the perception of a seat adjustment between the IPP and the PML-N. Political observers say that the PML-N has indirectly left the constituency open.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1805936\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The PPP has no candidate for NA-143, and its leader in the area, Shahzad Saeed Cheema, is contesting as MPA on a PPP ticket. Observers speculate that the absence of the PPP and the PML-N\u2019s indecisiveness may benefit PTI\u2019s Rai in winning the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jutt served as tehsil nazim of Chichawatni in 2001 and 2005 after parting ways with the Rai brothers. He was elected as a PML-N MNA in 2016 in a by-election for NA-162 (now NA-143) but lost the general elections in 2018 as PML-N candidate against Rai Murtaza Iqbal by a margin of 25,000 votes. Mr Jutt faced another defeat in a 2018 by-election for PP-201 against Pir Samsam Bukhari.<\/p>\n<p>Denied a PML-N ticket due to IPP-PML-N seat adjustment arrangements, Mr Jutt is now contesting the election under the Ittehad Group, forming an alliance with Adil Saeed Gujar, who was denied a PTI ticket for PP-203.<\/p>\n<p>Zahid Iqbal, initially elected as a PPP MNA in the 2008 election from NA-162, was deseated in 2012 for holding dual citizenship. He joined the PML-N in 2013 and is now contesting elections for NA-143 and PP-203 under his political group named \u201cAman Group\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Rais of Chichawatni \u2013 Rai Hasan Nawaz, Rai Murtaza Iqbal, and retired Maj Ghulam Sarwar \u2013 who did not abandon PTI, are contesting the election for NA-143, PP-203, and PP-204. Many believe that the division in the PML-N leadership will pave the way for the PTI to win the NA-143 seat, as this is the only seat the PTI won from Sahiwal district in the 2013 and 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>NA-143, Sahiwal III, is the largest constituency with 584,698 registered voters in the Sahiwal district.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, January 16th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAHIWAL: The NA-143 constituency witnesses an intriguing clash as two former PML-N parliamentarians, Tufail Jutt and Chaudhry Zahid Iqbal, Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) candidate Nauman Langrial, and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) backed candidate Rai Hasan Nawaz are in the field. The presence of two PML-N leaders in the field challenges the perception of a seat adjustment between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/01\/16080317a641300.png?r=080410","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}