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FP Staff Report
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N won Wednesday's by-elections
in NA-123 Lahore and PP-82 Jhang while PML-Zia and Pakistan
People's Party clinched PP-284 Bahawalnagar and PP-25 Jafarabad,
according to unofficial results received so far from the majority
of the polling stations.
Malik Pervez of PML-N has returned successful with sizeable
margin in NA-123 Lahore while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's candidate
Hamid Khan Mairaj stood second.
Overall, complete calm was witnessed during the day, but
some candidates leveled charges of riggings against their
rival candidates.
In Bahawalnagar area of Fort Abbas, the polling had to be
discontinued as a result of dispute between the polling agents
of different candidates in polling station-295.
Jamaat Islami's Hafiz Salman Butt and Pakistan Muslim League
(PML-N) candidate Shahbaz Sharif came face to face at Lahore's
polling station-38, where the workers of both the parties
raised slogans.
On this, police arrived on the spot to quench the slogans
and confrontation. Police took Hamza in their cordon.
Government has announced public holiday on the occasion of
by-polls in three constituencies including Bahawalnagar, Jhang
and Jaffarabad.
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