Pakistan's PTI party announces its candidate for prime minister

(18 Feb 2024)
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Islamabad, Pakistan - 18 February 2024
1. Chairman Gohar Khan (left) and Omar Ayub Khan, senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, arriving for briefing
2. Various of briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Omar Ayub Khan, senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf:
“I am thankful to my prime minister and Prime Minister Imran Khan who rules the hearts of the people of Pakistan, and thankful to my party, who considered me worthy, and nominated me to contest the election of the minister of at national assembly. God willing, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf will be victorious."
4. Wide of briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Omar Ayub Khan, senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf:
“The process of rigging that has been done against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf is being declared by us as the mother of all rigging, and the technical way in which it is being done, I repeat that we are declaring it as the mother of all rigging. It (party) rejects it in strong terms."
6. Various end of briefing


STORYLINE:
A key aide of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been nominated as a candidate in a parliamentary election seeking a new premier following last week's national election.

Senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Omar Ayub Khan said in a briefing on Sunday that he was thankful for the nomination.

Ayub was a federal minister for Economic Affairs under Imran Khan's leadership.

Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and marriage law violations in three separate verdicts in late January and early February during trials at a prison in Rawalpindi.

Supporters of Khan said the prosecutions were politically motivated moves to make him ineligible to run in the country’s Feb. 8 elections to choose a parliament and ultimately to elect a new prime minister.

The party's supporters held countrywide protests again against what they call widespread rigging against it in the polls.

The election commission has denied such accusations.

Under the constitution, Pakistan's President Arif Alvi will convene the inaugural National Assembly session before Feb. 29 so that lawmakers can be sworn in.

The parliament will later elect the new prime minister.

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