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PTI must not suffer because of me, says Ali Muhammad Khan after ticket snubISLAMABAD: Former MNA Ali Muhammad
the party and beat the status quo
In a message on Twitter on Saturday, Ali Muhammad Khan said that PTI must not suffer because of him
To reports that he was denied ticket, Khan said that it was a trivial matter
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Friday released a list of its candidates for the forthcoming 2018 general elections
information minister, Shaukat Yousafzai and MNA Ali Mohammad Khan were refused the party tickets due to reasons best known to the party
leadership.Some influential people of the party, including ex-chief minister Pervez Khattak, ex-speaker provincial assembly, Assad Qaisar,
former education minister Muhammad Atif Khan, former health minister Shahram Khan Tarakai, former housing minister Dr Amjad Ali and former
public health minister Shah Farman were given two tickets each to contest the election.Senior PTI leaders told The News that some of the
tickets were delayed due to differences among the party workers.In rural Mardan, the PTI leadership delayed issuing party ticket for NA-22,
where Ali Mohammad Khan had won previously and was considered a strong contender for the party ticket.However, according to sources,
recently some people joined the party and they had strong voices in the PTI provincial and central leadership and wanted them to get the
Some of the old party people wanted Ali Mohammad Khan to get the PTI ticket, while others wanted to give to former education minister
Iftikhar Mohmand who recently joined the party
And then there is another powerful faction which wanted the PTI ticket should go to the son of an elderly politician, Sarfaraz Khan who came
