Sees his lead shrink from 173 votes to just 28 votesPESHAWAR: Former provincial chief minister Akram Khan Durrani has retained his provincial assembly seat from Bannu following a recount in the constituency, election officials announced on Tuesday. Durrani, who served as the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) from 2002 to 2007 under the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government, had been contesting the general elections from PK-90 in Bannu. The former K-P chief minister saw his lead erode from 173 votes to just 28 votes. On the other hand, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced elections at a polling station in PK-80 Kohat. On July 25, election authorities had stopped polling at polling station 39.

Source: The Express Tribune August 01, 2018 07:30 UTC