KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday has felicitated his party workers on winning the by-election in National Assembly (NA) constituency NA-249 Karachi again after the vote recount. After a recount of votes polled across all 276 stations, Mandokhail got 15,656 votes, whereas PML-N candidate Miftah Ismail secured 14,747. This means that the PPP candidate was ahead of the second-placed Mistah Ismail by a margin of 909 votes. In a statement issued on Sunday, Bilawal said that the rate of poverty was dangerously on the rise. He said that with a 30 per cent rise in the poverty rate, 80.5 million people are standing on the edge of the poverty line.

Source: Pakistan Today May 09, 2021 12:22 UTC