KARACHI, April 10: The PPP announced on Wednesday its candidates
for national and provincial assembly seats in Sindh for the May
11 general elections.  However, the names of candidates on
Karachi’s 20 NA and 42 PA seats and two NA and five PA seats in
Thatta will be announced later.  The party tickets were
finalised by a parliamentary party board headed by Faryal Talpur
and announced by Sindh PPP chief Syed Qaim Ali Shah at a press
conference here.  Accompanied by PPP leaders Taj Haider,
Sherjeel Memon and Waqar Mehdi, Mr Shah told a questioner that
the Shirazi group in Thatta had joined the PPP on their own and
left it of their own accord.  The name of candidates on NA seats
are: Nauman Islam Shaikh (Sukkur-I NA-198), Syed Khurshid Ahmed
Shah (Sukkur-II NA-199), Khalid Ahmad Lund (Ghotki-I NA-200),
Sardar Ali Gohar Mahar (Ghotki-II NA-201), Aftab Shaban Mirani
(Shikarpur-I NA-202), Sardar Wahid Bux Bhayo (Shikarpur-II
NA-203), Muhammad Ayaz Soomro (Larkana-I NA-204), Nazeer Ahmed
Bughio (Larkana-II NA 205),