Re: PTI may put up Asad Umar from NA-48
Rigging has almost become a science and the old guards understand it like no other. PTI will need to come up with a fail-safe strategy to stop rigging in all its forms and manifestations. IK will need to exert his personal charisma and Javed Hashmi will be required to knock at virtually every door to ask for votes for Asad. Sheikh Rashid can also come handy. Asad Umar himself is a charming orator and can cast a spell on a relatively educated voter class of NA-48.
Media as well as the ECP-N will also need to be put on high alert for fairness of the whole exercise. Noon League needs to be put on its back foot given the fact that they have no reason to earn any bad name for a single seat while they would have already been in power by then. Sharif is already under preser because of the power crisis. Reclaiming NA-48 should not be a Herculean task for the PTI, but I still hope that the party goes into the bye-poll with 100% planning and not 99%.