MQM-P denies reports of seat adjustment with PML-N for NA-242

• No truth to seat adjustment reports: Khalid Maqbool. 
• Says Mustafa Kamal to contest from NA-242.
• Reports claimed PML-N, MQM-P reached seat adjustment. 

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui denied the reports of any seat adjustment with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for the NA-242 constituency in Karachi. 

"There is no truth to the reports pertaining to the seat adjustment in NA-242 Karachi," said Siqqdiui, adding that Senior Deputy Convener Mustafa Kamal is contesting as MQM-P candidate from the constituency. 

A day earlier, it was reported that the MQM-P has entered seat adjustment with the PML-N for three NA constituencies, including NA-242, where PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif is also contesting elections.  

Sources told Geo News on Tuesday that apart from Shehbaz, PML-N will field its candidates on five NA seats — including NA-229, 230, and 239 — as well as 11 provincial assembly seats within these constituencies.

Meanwhile, the MQM-P candidates would contest polls for the national and provincial assembly seats from Malir’s NA-231 constituency, they said.

The sources added that the Karachi-based party will field its candidates on the provincial seats within the NA-242 constituency. 

On December 29, Shehbaz announced filing his nomination papers for the upcoming general elections from Karachi’s NA-242 constituency, where Kamal had also filed his documents.

Shehbaz had contested from the NA-249 constituency of Karachi in the 2018 general elections which he lost to the then-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda by a slight margin.