Presidential Poll: Final List Of Candidates Today

Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 10:59 am

ISLAMABAD:The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday will issue the final list of candidates nominated to the election of new president of Pakistan schedule to be held on Sept 6.

According to ECP, the presidential candidates can withdraw their nomination papers by 12:00am today, afterward the final list of the candidates will be released.

On Thursday, ECP accepted nomination papers of top three runners for the president’s office out of 33 who submitted their nomination PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, former chief justice and PML-N candidate Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui and former ruling party PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed.

Voting for presidential poll will be held at Parliament House in Islamabad and the four Provincial Assemblies on September 6 from 10.am to 3.pm.