PESHAWAR
Just like in 2018, the general elections of 2024 were a complete bust for every other political party except the PTI.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, only PTI leaders were successful; the rest of the parties’ leaders lost.
Former K-P chief ministers Pervez Khattak and Mahmood Khan, who established their own party named PTI-Parliamentarians, also met with failure, in addition to those who departed from the PTI and joined other parties.
Voters who stuck with the PTI through thick and thin saw their efforts rewarded with victory.
While PTI founder and current chairman Imran Khan did well in the 2018 general election from K-P, every other national leader—including former prime minister and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, former prime minister and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan, Qaumi Watan Party head Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, Jamaat-e-Islami emir Sirajul Haq, and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman—fell shortfall in the 2018 general election.
Barrister Gohar, leader of the PTI, is once again on the path to success in the province, while everyone else—the PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, the ANP provincial president Aimal Wali Khan, the JUI-F chief and his two sons, the QWP’s Sherpao and his son Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao, the JI emir—seems to have faced defeat.
Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, a senior politician and former federal minister for the ANP, also lost.
While Salim Saifullah Khan, a former federal minister of the PML-Q, was able to secure his seat, Anwar Saifullah Khan, a former president of the PPP K-P, was not.
In addition to Syed Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha and Shuja Khan of the PPP K-P, Samar Haroon Bilour of the ANP, Molana Attaul Haq Darvish of the JUI-F, and Abdul Wasey of the JI, all of whom were seeking to succeed Professor Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as provincial emir, were unsuccessful in securing their respective seats.
Even though she had been victorious in each of the prior elections, PPP K-P information secretary Amjad Afridi was one of the many people who lost out in this round.
Asad Qaiser, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, Shehryar Afridi, Ali Muhammad Khan, and Ali Amin Gandapur are among the independent candidates associated with the PTI who were successful once again.
The setback was also felt by Bakht Jehan Khan, the former speaker of the K-P Assembly and a candidate running from Buner on the JI banner.
