Summary Presidential election would be held on July 30.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Election Commission of Pakistan has issued final list of the presidential candidates on Saturday.
According to the list‚ Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Mamnoon Hussain and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Justice (retd) Wajhiuddin are in the run for the presidential slot.
Covering candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Iqbal Zafar Jhagra withdrew his nomination papers today.
The Election Commission has also issued the directives for printing of the ballot papers.
The new president will be elected by members of the upper and lower houses of parliament and of four regional assemblies on Tuesday (July 30).
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the main opposition party, announced Friday it would boycott presidential polls to protest against the manner in which the election schedule was brought forward.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the ballot would be held on July 30 instead of August 6 after the PML-N complained that the original date clashed with the end of Ramadan.
Many lawmakers tasked with electing a successor to President Asif Ali Zardari will be on pilgrimage or offering special prayers at the tail end of the holy fasting month, the court said.
Incumber President Asif Ali Zardari was elected after the PPP won elections in 2008 following the assassination of his wife, former premier Benazir Bhutto.
The PPP served a full five-year term in office, but lost heavily in May general elections won by a PML-N landslide.
Asif Ali Zardari is hugely unpopular, reviled for alleged corruption and for presiding over a government that oversaw deteriorating economic growth and increasing terrorist attacks.
