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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday declared the by-poll held on February 19 in the NA-75 Sialkot-IV constituency as void and ordered holding fresh polls in the entire constituency on March 18.
The short order was issued by a commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja. The polling process was marred by violence that claimed the lives of two people and left several injured and allegations of rigging after a number of presiding officers went “missing” in the dead of night and the ECP was unable to get in touch with them.
In a press release issued on February 20, the ECP said it had withheld results over suspicions of rigging. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) insisted that their candidate, Ali Asjad Malhi, won the election by a margin of 7,000 votes. However, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz had over the course of polling tweeted a number of videos of suspicious activit
By News deskISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan Thursday declared the NA-75, Daska by-election as void and ordered fresh poll/re-poll in the entire constituency on March 18, 2021.The.