PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan has said that the PTI-backed SIC members have nominated Pashtun­khwa Milli Awami Party chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai as their candidate for president, adding that they have submitted his nomination papers in the Islamabad High Court.

He added that having a candidate from Balochistan — a deprived province — was a “very strong message” for national unity from the jailed PTI founder Imran Khan.

“It is Imran Khan who is mixing Pashtun with Punjabi, Baloch with Sindhi and Sindhi with Urdu-speaking and Kashmiri with Gilgiti […],” he wrote in a post on X.