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Live updates: Latest NA-249 Karachi by-election results
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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Counting of results from polling stations of the NA-249 Karachi constituency has finished, with final unofficial, provision results showing victory for the PPP.
According to the unofficial, preliminary results from 276 polling stations, PPP s Abdul Qadir Mandokhel won the race with 16,156 votes.
PML-N s Miftah Ismail came second place with 15,473 votes, while banned outfit TLP s candidate Nazeer Ahmed remains in third place with 11,125 votes.
The PTI had a dismal showing, never going beyond fourth place at any point during the count. It was at fifth place with 8,922 votes at last tally.
Former Karachi mayor and PSP candidate Mustafa Kamal came in fourth place with 9,227 votes, whereas MQM-P candidate Hafiz Muhammad Mursaleen took last place with 7,511 votes.
NA-249 by-election: PPP, PML-N neck and neck in closely-watched race
Pakistan
Fri, Apr 30, 2021
PML-N s Miftah Ismail (top left), PTI s Amjad Afridi (top right), Qadir Khan Mandokhail (below left) and PSP s Mustafa Kamal (below right).
All eyes are on Karachi today as counting of votes continues in the NA-249 District West-II constituency where a by-election was held.
PPP and PML-N are neck and neck in the closely-watched race, according to early results.
The polling process was conducted largely peacefully with no untoward incident taking place, according to on-the-ground coverage from Geo News reporters.
Polling time ended at 5pm, immediately after which counting began at most polling stations owing to a low voter turn out which analysts say could be attributed to Ramadan as well as the hot weather.
Former MLA Zulfikar Hashmi dead
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Syed Zulfikar Hashmi
The former MLA and Janata Parivar leader Syed Zulfikar Hashmi died in Bidar on Tuesday. He was 57. He was suffering from kidney ailments.
He is survived by his wife and five children.
His son Talha Hashmi is a barrister and a leader of Bahujan Mukti Morcha, an NGO.
At the age of 29, he became the first BSP leader from South India to win an Assembly election. He later joined the Janata Dal and then the Janata Dal (Secular). He fought every Assembly poll and bypoll later but could not repeat his feat.
Journalist bodies, HRCP slam content against women
National
April 6, 2021
KARACHI: The journalist organisations and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan have strongly condemned the unethical and inappropriate content published against women by a local Urdu daily published from Karachi.
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) on Monday condemned the uncalled-for and unethical attack on women by a local Urdu daily. The PFUJ strongly condemned the uncalled for immoral and unethical attack on women published on the front page of the daily and termed it violative of all the principles and ethics of journalism. In a joint statement, President PFUJ Shahzada Zulfiqar and Secretary General Nasir Zaidi said that never in the history of Pakistan’s journalism, such strong words against any segment of the society had ever been used. It seems that the daily newspaper is being used to fulfil the agenda of extremists who do not want to see w