Musharraf to file nomination papers today

March 28, 2013 09:13

Former President Pervez Musharraf, who announced on Wednesday that he will contest the upcoming general election from a parliamentary constituency in Chitral in northern Pakistan, will file nomination papers today.

Shahzada Khalid Pervez, a leader of the All Pakistan Muslim League, said that the APML has decided to field Musharraf from

the mountainous constituency where the party has a "strong vote bank". He said he was optimistic that the APML chief would easily sail through polls in the constituency.

Musharraf had chosen the constituency in Chitral because the residents "wanted to pay tribute" to the former President for launching developmental programmes like the Lowari Tunnel, Pervez said.

Though the APML enjoys little support in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the people of Chitral have for long backed Musharraf, who ended nearly four years of self-exile when he returned to Pakistan on Sunday.

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