Prominent leaders of Awami National Party (ANP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) have filed their nomination papers in district Swabi on Friday. PML-N leaders who filed the nomination papers included former MPA Muhammad Shiraz Khan form PK-43, Swabi-1, ex-MPA Babar Saleem from PK-44, Swabi-II, Ijaz Akram Bacha from PK-47, Swabi-V and Sajjad Khan from NA-19, Swabi-II.
The PTI leaders who filed the papers were former MNA Usman Khan Tarakai from NA-19, ex-MPA Abdul Karim from PK-45, Swabi-III, former MPA Muhammad Ali Tarakai from PK-46 and former provincial health minister. Shahram Khan Tarakai from PK-47, ANP's Ameer Rehman, former MPA from PK-47, Ayaz Shoaib from PK-46, Amjid Ali PK-45, Gul Zamin Shah from PK-44 and Muhammad Islam from PK-18, Swabi-1.
The MMA district president has filed the nomination papers from NA-18, Ishfaqullah Khan for NA-19, Maluana Roshan Zeb from PK-43, Maulana Qamar Zaman from PK-44, Maluana Amin Dost from PK-45. All these leaders belong to JUI-F and none of Jamaat-i- Islami came forward to file the nomination papers.