Who are PTI’s familiar, new faces in the race for NA seats?

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has unveiled a list of its candidates for 234 out of the total 266 National Assembly seats in the upcoming elections.

The list, shared by the party's central office, includes 20 women and 20 lawyers, mixing established PTI leaders with new faces like lawyers Sardar Latif Khosa and Salman Akram Raja.

PTI's decision on 32 constituencies is pending, and they might update the candidate list soon.

PTI aims to have candidates for each seat, and adjustments have been made, but no one will contest elections from more than one seat except PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

The party has made changes to the candidate list, replacing those not contesting from their previous constituencies with family members. For example, Mian Azhar replaces his son, Hammad Azhar. 

The list includes 20 women candidates, Kanwal Shauzab (from Bahawalpur-III), Shandana Gulzar (Peshawar-III), Eman Tahir (Attock-III), Seemabia Tahir (Rawalpindi-VI), Rehana Imtiaz Dar (Sialkot-II), Aliya Hamza (Lahore-II), Dr Yasmeen Rashid (Lahore-XIV), Sidra Faisal (Kasur-IV), and Ayesha Nazir Jutt (Vehari-I).

Other women candidates are Qamar Javed Warraich (Rahim Yar Khan-IV), Humaira Ahmed Khan (Muzaffargarh-II), Amber Majeed Niazi (Layyah-I), Zartaj Gul Wazir (D.G. Khan-II), Naheed Khawar (Kamber Shahdadkot-II), Ambareen Malik (Khairpur-I), Hameeda Shah (Sanghar-I), Meharun Nisa Baloch (Tharparkar-II), Nazish Bhatti (Matiari), Rozina Bhutto (Tando Allahyar) and Shabana Nawab (Dadu-I).

Notable candidates also include (Haripur), Murad Saeed/Kamal Khan Advocate (Swat-III) Saleemur Rehman (Swat-II), Sibghatullah (Upper Dir), Mehboob Shah (Lower Dir-I), Junaid Akbar (Malakand), Asad Qaisar (Swabi-I), Shahram Tarakai (Swabi-II), Ali Muhammad Khan (Mardan-III), Sajid Khan (Mohmand), Arbab Sher Ali (Peshawar IV), Shehriyar Afridi (Kohat) and Ali Amin Gandapur (D.I. Khan-I).

Prominent lawyers on the list include Barrister Gohar Ali Khan (from Buner), Latif Khosa (Lahore-VI), Salman Akram Raja (Lahore-XII), Shoaib Shaheen (Islamabad-II) Sher Afzal Marwat (Lakki Marwat), Ali Bukhari (Islamabad-III), Advocate Haris Meo (Karachi Korangi-II), Shafqat Awan Advocate (Sargodha-III), Khudadad Kalyar Advocate (Sargodha-IV), Akram Niazi Advocate (Khushab-II), Afzal Azeem Pahat (Lahore-VII), Zameen Jedho Advocate (Lahore-VIII), Barrister Taimur Malik (Multan-I), Mumtaz Mustafa Advocate (Rahim Yar Khan-III), Barrister Nabeel Dharr (Rahim Yar Khan V), Advocate Aftab Soomro (Shikarpur), Advocate Zahoor Mehsud (Karachi-East-III), Advocate Shujaat Ali Khan (Karachi-Keamari-II), and Barrister Uzair Ghauri (Karachi-Central-III).

Others included Aamir Masood Mughal (Islamabad-I), Tahir Sadiq (Attock-I), Raja Basharat (Rawalpindi-IV), Shahriyar Riaz (Rawalpindi-V), Ayaz Amir (Chakwal), Ali Sajid Malhi (Sialkot-IV), retired Col Javed Kholoon (Narowal-II), Riaz Fatiyana (Toba Tek Singh-III), Sahibzada Mehboob Sultan (Jhang-I), Sheikh Waqar Akram, (Jhang-II), retired Brig Ejaz Shah (Nankana Sahib-I), Mian Azhar (Lahore-XIII), Malik Amir Dogar (Multan-II), Zain Qureshi (Multan-III), Shah Mahmood Qureshi/Mehr Bano Qureshi (Multan-IV), Mr Qureshi (Tharparkar-I), Shaukat Basra/Talat Mehmood Basra (Bahawalnagar-IV), and Samiullah Chaudhry (Bahawalpur-V).

Some other PTI candidates for the National Assembly seats will be Jamshaid Dasti (Muzaffargarh-I), Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood (Taunsa), Saifullah Abro (Larkana-I), Lalchand Malhi (Umerkot), Aleem Adil Sheikh (Karachi Korangi-I), Faheem Khan (Karachi-Korangi-III), Muhammad Alamgir Khan (Karachi-East-II), Aleem Adil Sheikh (Karachi-East-IV) and Khurram Sher Zaman (Karachi-South-III).