ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has reserved verdict on the vote recount appeal made by PML-N candidate in NA-249 by-poll.
Sources claimed that the verdict will be announced later in the day.
Earlier, a four-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikander Sultan Raja heard Mifath Ismail’s vote recount appeal during which PPP’s counsel Latif Khosa and PML-N’s Salman Akram Raja presented their arguments.
PML-N candidate Miftah Ismail, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Musaddiq Malik and Muhammad Zubair and PPP candidate Qadir Khan Mandokhel, Saeed Ghani, Nayar Hussain Bukhari and Farooq H Naek appeared before the ECP.
The counsel for PML-N, Salman Akram Raja told the commission that the Form-45 from 167 polling stations does not carry signatures of any polling agent.
