The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz senior leader was competing against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on NA-131 Lahore, where he lost the battle with a razor-thin margin of around 600 votes. While talking to media persons, Saad said his request to recount votes was only partially accepted, “Only the rejected votes that were around 2,035 were recounted whereas the overall casted votes of around 195,000 were not,” he said. Vote recounting requests for 3 NA seats acceptedHe further claimed he had submitted a written request to the returning officer for recounting and the RO had initially started to review the rejected votes only. Vote recounting requests for 3 NA seats acceptedMoreover, Saad added that either the people responsible for delimitation were incompetent or they were working on an agenda. “I challenge him to retain this seat of the five he has own,” he concluded adding that the PTI chief never won NA-131 and a recount will soon expose him before the people.

Source: The Express Tribune July 30, 2018 03:11 UTC