LAHORE, July 28 (TNS): Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz\u2019s PML-N senior leader and former Railway minister Saad Rafiq has lost his contest in recounting.<\/p>\n
Rafique, who lost to the PTI chairman Imran Khan with a very thin margin of under 100 votes in the constituency NA-131 in Wednesday\u2019s polls, had filed a complaint with the returning officer alleging that the presiding officer deliberately rejected hundreds of votes.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Returning Officer approved the plea, which challenged his opponent Imran Khan\u2019s victory in NA-131 Lahore 9 constituency.<\/p>\n
In a recounting process Saad Rafiq could only gained 150 votes while as his opponent did also managed to add 50 more votes to his aggregate.<\/p>\n
Questions have been raised at a number of other constituencies where the win-loss margins were very close and recounting can be expected to take place at more constituencies.<\/p>\n
Faisalabad\u2019s NA-108 and NA-106, Multan\u2019s NA-154 and NA-157, NA-230 Badin, NA-57 Murree,\u00a0NA-131 Lahore, and others are among the constituencies where recounting is being carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE, July 28 (TNS): Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz\u2019s PML-N senior leader and former Railway minister Saad Rafiq has lost his contest in recounting. Rafique, who lost to the PTI chairman Imran Khan with a very thin margin of under 100 votes in the constituency NA-131 in Wednesday\u2019s polls, had filed a complaint with the returning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lahore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74044,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041\/revisions\/74044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}