Peshawar
February 25, 2021
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has demanded recounting in the recently held by-election on NA-45, Kurram tribal district.
The National Assembly seat was won by the JUI-F’s Munir Khan Orakzai in the July 2018 general elections.
It had fallen vacant after his death due to Covid-19. The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Malik Fakharuzaman was declared a winner in the recent by-poll on the seat.
Speaking at a news conference in the Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, the JUI-F Secretary Information, Abdul Jalil Jan, alleged that the PTI government had rigged the by-poll and changed the results.
Flanked by the party deputy general secretary, erstwhile Fata, Ahmad Saeed and information secretary, Qari Jehad Shah Afridi, he rejected NA-45 Kurram by-poll result, alleging record rigging.