In a major development, Awami National Party’s (ANP) candidate Nisar Khan emerged victorious in the PK-22 by-election in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Bajaur district after securing 11,926 votes, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results released on late Thursday night.
As per the unofficial results, independent candidate Najeebullah Khan came in second with 10,622 votes, followed by Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Abid Khan, who bagged 10,593 votes in by-election.
In Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-ruled KP, Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) Rahatullah Khan was at fourth place with 7,146 votes.
It is pertinent to mention here that the polling began at 8am and continued till 5pm without any break. The KP assembly seat fell vacant after the occupant, Mubarak Zeb Khan, was elected to the National Assembly.
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