The heads of their parties and other senior politicians have submitted their nomination papers with Returning Officers in the provincial capital Quetta and other parts of the province.
Official sources in the EC Balochistan provided details to APP here on Sunday those suggested that the senior politicians including Mehmood Khan Achakzai, the chief of Pashtunkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), Independent candidate senior lawyer Ali Ahmed Kurd, Hafiz Hamdullah of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Dr Ruqayya Saeed Hashmi of Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q), and Mir Maqbool Lehri of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) submitted their nomination papers for NA-259 Quetta City seat. Hafiz Hussain Ahmed of JUI-F submitted his nomination forms for NA-260 Quetta-Chagai.
Nawab Ayyaz Khan Jogezai of PkMAP, Malik Abdul Ghaffar Kakar of JUI-N, Mir Liaquat Lehri of PML-N, Haji Abdul Sadique Noorozai of JUI-F and Navid Ahmed of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) submitted their nomination forms for PB-3 Quetta.
Molvi Khuda'ay Dost of JUI-F, Manzoor Ahmed Kakar of PkMAP, Haji Abdul Sattar Kakar of Awami National Party (ANP), Abdul Ghaffar Qambrani of National Party (NP), Abdul Khaliq Hazara of Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), Abdul Wahid Agha of JUI-N submitted their nomination papers for PB-6 Quetta.
Mir Zarak Zehri, the chief of his own faction of PML, Akhtar Hussain Langov of Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Sardar Raza Muhammad of PkMAP, and Farooq Langov of JUI-N submitted their forms for PB-04 Quetta.
Omar Quresh of PkMAP, Jan Ali Changezi of PPP, Zahiruddin Rajput of PkMAP, Naik Muhammad Kakar of ANP, Tahir Mehmood of PML-N and Saeed Hashmi of PML-Q submitted their papers for PB-1 Quetta. Nasrullah Zeeray of PkMAP, Zubair Shah Agha of ANP and Ishaq Shahwani submitted their nomination forms for PB-5 Quetta.