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PPP’s Akhtar Abbas Nashad Wins Skardu By-Election by 305 Votes

From Dawn · () English

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  • PPP candidate Akhtar Abbas Nashad won the GBA-09 by-election in Skardu by 8,399 votes to 8,094 for independent candidate Wazir Saleem.
  • The 305-vote victory followed a closely contested race with 51.79 percent turnout.
  • Nashad contested the seat after a court disqualified his father, Fida Muhammad Nashad, who had won it in the general election.

Akhtar Abbas Nashad reclaimed the GBA-09 seat in Skardu for the Pakistan Peoples Party by defeating independent candidate Wazir Saleem by 305 votes.

Official results issued on Sunday showed Nashad received 8,399 votes, while Saleem received 8,094. The constituency recorded turnout of 51.79 percent in the election held a day earlier.

The by-election followed a decision by the Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court to disqualify Fida Muhammad Nashad, Akhtar Abbas Nashad’s father, after he had been declared the winning candidate in the June general elections.

Akhtar Abbas Nashad entered the contest and won back the seat for the party. More than 800 police personnel, along with members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts, were deployed during the closely fought election.

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