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ISLAMABAD: Boisterous PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi is crestfallen after Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan decided to retain NA-56 Rawalpindi seat of the National Assembly.
Immediately after his defeat at the hands of Imran Khan on May 11, Abbasi started hectic work to brace up for the possible by-election for this constituency of the Rawalpindi city.He was extremely confident that in the by-poll to be held in July he would cover the lead of 13,356 votes with which he faced the rout. But his hopes dashed to the ground as Imran Khan kept this seat while he left his native NA-71 Mianwali and NA-1 Peshawar seats.
On the contrary the would-be Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, retained his traditional Lahore seat and vacated the additional seat of Sargodha. Similarly, senior PTI leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi left the NA-48 Islamabad seat and kept his traditional Multan seat.
Not only Hanif Abbasi but many people believed that he would have defeated any candidate of the PTI or some other political party in the contest for NA-56, had Imran Khan not challenged him. In the past, he twice clinched this seat comfortably, defeating Sheikh Rashid, who has now got his traditional NA-55 Rawalpindi seat, courtesy of the PTI support.
Before the May 11 elections, like many contestants Abbasi also made very tall claims and boasted too much about his victory. He is still to swallow his beating.
It is quite likely that Imran Khan kept the NA-56 seat due to the fear that his party might lose it at the hands of the formidable Abbasi. Imran has apparently no such apprehensions about his Mianwali seat as well as the Peshawar seat because of the PTI government in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). By having Amjad Khan, son of late Dr Sher Afgan, with him, the PTI chief faces no risk of being deprived of the Mianwali seat.
However, it is a big question now whether or not Imran Khan will award the PTI ticket for the Mianwali constituency to Inamullah Niazi, his estranged first cousin and brother of his brother-in-law, who started openly speaking against him after he was denied the party sponsorship for NA-72 Mianwali. Instead the PTI had opted for Amjad Khan for this constituency and he won easily as was widely predicted.
The PTI parliamentary board consistently stubbornly declined the ticket to Niazi finding him an unsuitable candidate, who cant win due to his track record. Niazis brothers have been very annoyed with Imran Khan for this decision, which otherwise was extensively hailed in and out of the PTI, due to Imran Khans fairness.
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