KARACHI: The provincial election commissioner on Wednesday issued a final list of 159 candidates for seats reserved for women and minorities in the national and provincial assemblies from Sindh.

Except the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the list carries names of aspirants belonging to all major political partiesincludingPakistanMuslimLeague-Nawaz, Pakistan Peoples Party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, Grand Democratic Alliance, Jamaat-i-Islami, etc.

The list shows there are 38 aspirants including GDA`s Fehmida Mirza, PPP`s Shaiza Marri, Nafisa Shah, Syeda Shehla Raza and Sharmila Farooqui and MQMP`s Rana Ansar for NA seats reserved for women.

For the Sindh Assembly seats reserved for women, 83 candidates are in the run including PPP`s Rehana Laghari and Nida Khuhro and MQM-P`s Bilgees Mukhtar and Naheed Begum. There are also 38 candidates for the provincial assembly seats reserved for minorities including PPPP`s Mukesh Kumar Chawla, MQM-P`s Mangla Sharma and Sanjay Parwani.