ECP allows recount of NA-249 by-poll in Karachi ANI | Updated: May 04, 2021 22:58 IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday accepted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail s application for reconting of votes in the NA-249 Karachi by-election.
The ECP directed leaders of political parties who had contested the by-election to reach the office of the returning officer (RO) at 9 am on May 06 for the recount, Dawn reported.
PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz welcomed that Ismail s application was accepted. Happy to learn that PMLN s demand for a vote recount in NA-249 has been accepted. The narrow difference in votes of the top contestants necessitated this in the interest of transparency. Credibility of vote is a sure foundation of democracy, he tweeted.
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May 1, 2021
The PTI and the PML-N on Friday rejected the results of the by-election in Karachi as PPP’s Qadir Khan Mandokhail emerged victorious in NA-249 after securing 16,156 votes.
PML-N’s Miftah Ismail came in second with 15,473 votes, followed by the candidate from the recently banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Mufti Nazeer Ahmed Kamalvi, who secured 11,125 votes, unofficial results showed. Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal was at fourth place with 9,227 votes, followed by PTI’s Amjad Afridi with 8,922 votes.
May 1, 2021
The NA-249 by-election in Karachi was being watched with interest for some time. The seat was vacated after the PTI’s Faisal Vawda, the winning candidate in 2018, resigned. The by-election, however, saw still more controversy with, ironically enough, both the PTI and PML-N this time calling out discrepancies in the counting of votes. Both Maryam Nawaz and PTI leaders have demanded a full inquiry into what happened, and notably why ballot counting took so long given that the turnout was extremely low –put at between 15 and 18 percent according to the unofficial figures available. Even among political observers, there has been quite a lot of talk regarding the inordinately delayed result for a very small number of cast votes.
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