From gutters and war zones, the colourful election candidates

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Photo: AFP</figcaption></figure></div><p>There is the ecologist, the 'semi-corrupt', the opportunist, and the indestructible. Alongside mainstream politicians a battery of flamboyant candidates are contesting the general election on July 25.<br></p><p>Here are five who each embody the myriad challenges facing the country.</p><h3>Ayaz Memon Motiwala, the ecologist </h3><div class="medium-insert-images ui-sortable"><figure contenteditable="false" class="" style="position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-22/204276_687179_updates.jpg" alt="" class=""> <figcaption contenteditable="true" class="">Ayaz Memon Motiwala holds a Pakistan national flag as he lies partially submerged in garbage at a dump during an election rally in Karachi. Photo: AFP </figcaption></figure></div><p>To make his point, Ayaz Memon Motiwala campaigns from the gutters.</p><p>Running as an independent in Karachi, Motiwala prefers to get his anti-corruption, pro-environment message out as he lies in pools of sewage — all while draped in Pakistan's green and white flag.</p><p>"If they do not cover the gutters then this is my right to sit inside the gutter and protest," Motiwala tells AFP.</p><div class="medium-insert-embeds medium-insert-embeds-right50" contenteditable="false"> <figure> <div class="medium-insert-embed"> <div class="embed_external_url embedRelatedStory" style="width: 100%;height: 100%;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/https://www.geo.tv/latest/202605-election-fever-brings-unique-campaigning-to-forefront" target="_blank"><img class="relatedPostImage" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-10/202605_011918_updates.jpg"><h4>Election fever brings unique campaigning to forefront </h4><p>From posing on top of garbage to driving rickshaws, the candidates have shown that they are willing to do anything to sway voters</p></a><a class="iconArea" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/http://www.geo.tv/" target="_blank"><img class="relatedPostImage" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/front/images/gn-icons/geo-favicon.jpg"></a></div> </div> </figure> <div class="medium-insert-embeds-overlay"></div> </div><p>Motiwala has chosen the water tap as his election symbol.</p><p>Water is a highly charged issue, with experts saying Pakistan faces "absolute scarcity" — less than 500 cubic metres available per person nationwide — by 2025.</p><p>"Vote for me — but even if you don't — please remember that clean water is the need of hour," Motiwala tells voters.</p><h3>Radesh Singh Tony, the brave</h3><div class="medium-insert-images ui-sortable"><figure contenteditable="false" class="" style="position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-22/204276_9716985_updates.jpg" alt="" class=""> <figcaption contenteditable="true" class=""> Radesh Singh Tony (C) distributes pamphlets during his door-to-door election campaign in Peshawar. Photo: AFP</figcaption></figure></div><p>Radesh Singh Tony is the first independent candidate from the Sikh minority to run from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.</p><p>The odds are already heavily stacked against Tony in a constituency populated with around 130,000 mostly Muslim registered voters, compared to just 160 Sikhs.</p><p class="">His two opponents come from parties backed by religious organisations with alleged links to militant groups. <br></p><p>The contest comes just months after local Sikh community leader Charanjeet Singh was shot dead, and weeks after an bomb attack killed over 20 people at an election rally in the provincial capital.</p><p>If elected, Tony has vowed to serve all communities equally, but is still wary of simmering threats.</p><p>"We are vulnerable targets," Tony says. "We are campaigning in an atmosphere of fear."</p><h3>Ali Wazir, the indestructible </h3><p>Hailing from militancy-wracked South Waziristan, Ali Wazir's losses in the country's long war with insurgents are horrifying. </p><p>Wazir has had 10 relatives killed by militants, who have also destroyed his home, orchards and petrol station since the military first took the fight to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan more than a decade ago.</p><p>But he has never backed down.</p><p>As a rare vocal critic of both the Taliban and the establishment, Wazir has risen to prominence for questioning the military's "heavy-handedness".</p><p>"I am contesting elections at the demands of my people," said Wazir in an online video. "I will struggle for their rights."</p><h3>Nawab Amber Shahzada, 41 times defeated </h3><div class="medium-insert-images ui-sortable"><figure contenteditable="false"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-22/204276_4810594_updates.jpg" alt="" class=""> <figcaption contenteditable="true" class="">Nawab Amber Shahzada distributes pamphlets to residents on a street during his election campaign in Lahore. Photo: AFP</figcaption></figure></div><p>Shahzada's moustache is surmounted by sunglasses and a garnet headdress, while a thin red scarf adorns the neck of a candidate seeking to be the "king of politics".</p><p>But Shahzada is a lonely king at the head of a party of which he is the only member, who in the last 32 years has competed in 41 elections, and never won one.</p><div class="medium-insert-embeds medium-insert-embeds-right50" contenteditable="false"> <figure> <div class="medium-insert-embed"> <div class="embed_external_url embedRelatedStory" style="width: 100%;height: 100%;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/https://www.geo.tv/latest/203282-candidate-favouring-partial-corruption-seeks-to-bring-change" target="_blank"><img class="relatedPostImage" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-14/203282_010638_updates.jpg"><h4>Candidate favouring ‘partial corruption’ seeks to bring change </h4><p>Amber Shahzada, contesting from NA-125 Lahore as an independent candidate, seeks votes through pro-corruption slogans</p></a><a class="iconArea" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/http://www.geo.tv/" target="_blank"><img class="relatedPostImage" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/front/images/gn-icons/geo-favicon.jpg"></a></div> </div> </figure> <div class="medium-insert-embeds-overlay"></div> </div><p>In 1990 his party was refused registration when he vowed to provide Pakistanis with residential plots on the moon. </p><p>In 2013 he won just seven votes. </p><p>But he says it's all satire. </p><p>"Politicians are making us fools, they are misleading the public, and I try to make people aware with my funny style," he told AFP.</p><p>His slogan? "Need-based corruption". If elected, Shahzada vows to be "semi-corrupt".</p><p>That is opposed to the "full-corrupt" politicians currently in power, he says.</p><h3>Mir Abdul Karim Nousherwani, the weather vane </h3><p>Opportunism is his ideology. 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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-22/l_204258_122304_updates.jpg" alt="Army to assist ECP in holding transparent election: DG ISPR" title="Army to assist ECP in holding transparent election: DG ISPR"/> <span style="display: none" class="cat-label pakistan">pakistan</span> </div> </a> <div class="caption"> <a class="open-section" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/https://www.geo.tv/latest/204258-army-to-assist-ecp-in-holding-transparent-polls-dg-ispr"><h4>Army to assist ECP in holding transparent election: DG ISPR</h4></a> <span class="date">Updated 11 hours ago</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4 mbl"> <div class="more-block"> <a class="open-section" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/https://www.geo.tv/latest/204154-pml-n-leader-hanif-abbasi-sentenced-to-life-in-ephedrine-quota-case"> <div class="more-pic"> <img 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class="date">Updated 13 hours ago</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4 mbl"> <div class="more-block"> <a class="open-section" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/https://www.geo.tv/latest/204243-shehbaz-among-31-others-issued-notices-for-violating-electoral-code-of-conduct"> <div class="more-pic"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2018-07-21/l_204243_101630_updates.jpg" alt="Shehbaz among 31 others issued notices for violating electoral code of conduct" title="Shehbaz among 31 others issued notices for violating electoral code of conduct"/> <span style="display: none" class="cat-label pakistan">pakistan</span> </div> </a> <div class="caption"> <a class="open-section" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180722063600/https://www.geo.tv/latest/204243-shehbaz-among-31-others-issued-notices-for-violating-electoral-code-of-conduct"><h4>Shehbaz among 31 others issued notices for 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