KARACHI: Vote counting has been concluded by presiding officers in presence of law enforcement agency Rangers’ officials after polling ended in NA-246 by-election at 5:00pm amid tight security measures.
Unofficial results declared Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) candidate Kanwar Naveed Jameel winnter with 93,125 votes followed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s Imran Ismail and Rashid Naseem of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) respectively.
Initial and unofficial results revealed MQM’s Kanwar Naveed Jameel edged amongst the top three candidates of the by-election in NA-246 constituency of Karachi, the metropolis of Pakistan, amid loud rigging allegations.
PTI’s Imran Ismail managed to get 16,932 votes while 6,386 votes were gained by JI’s Rashid Naseem in accordance to the unofficial results extracted from 213 polling stations.
