ECP notifies Nawaz as winner from NA-130 Lahore

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday issued victory notifications of some more candidates of the National Assembly, including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz.

According to the ECP notification, Nawaz Sharif has been returned from NA-130 (Lahore), Shehbaz Sharif from NA-123 (Lahore), Maryam Nawaz from NA-119 (Lahore) and Hamza Shehbaz from NA-118 (Lahore).

Nawaz had challenged the election result from NA-15 (Mansehra), and the Election Commission sought report from the concerned returning officer on February 15.

According to Section 98 of the Elections Act, 2017, on receipt of the final consolidated result from the returning officer, the commission is bound to publish the name of the winner and runner up in the official Gazette within 14 days from the date of the polls.

The law also says, “Every returned candidate shall, within ten days from the poll of an election, submit a return of election expenses under Section 134 and the Commission shall not notify in the official Gazette the result of a returned candidate who fails to submit his return of election expenses.”

The ECP also notified Attaullah Tarar (PMLN) from NA-127 (Lahore) and Muhammad Awn Saqlain (IPP) from NA-128 (Lahore) as winners.

Besides, the ECP has also notified the names of the winning candidates from Punjab. They include Nasir Iqbal Bosal from NA-69 (Mandi Bahauddin), Chaudhry Armaghan Subhani from NA-70 (Sialkot), Khawaja Muhammad Asif from NA-71 (Sialkot), Ali Zahid from NA-72 (Sialkot) and Nousheen Iftikhar from NA-73 (Lahore). They all belong to PMLN.

From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Election Commission has notified Amir Muqam (PMLN) as winner from NA-11 (Shangla) with 59,863 votes followed by Syed Farin, an independent candidate with 54,311 votes.

A day earlier, the ECP had issued victory notification of three candidates from Islamabad.

Meanwhile, the ECP has also issued a notification for polling at six polling stations of NA-43, Tank-cum- Dera Ismail Khan on February 17. The commission said the polling at these polling stations could not be held on February 8 due to poor law and order situation.

In this connection, necessary instructions have been issued to the chief secretary, IGP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the law-enforcement agencies, it said.