Pakistan Election: upsets and setbacks

As counting of the votes continues for Elections 2018, many political leaders, in preliminary results, seem to have lost their strongholds and parliamentary seats.

Source: AP

Many political stalwarts have lost in the Pakistan Elections 2018.

According to media reports and unconfirmed results based on current voting trends, candidates of several parties who won elections in 2013 or earlier and have held major government positions have lost to other candidates.

The biggest upset includes the former prime minister and interior minister.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi lost both seats from NA-53 Islamabad and NA-57 Murree.

(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) Source: AP

Another upset was Chaudhry Nisar. He contested polls as an independent candidate but lost his NA-63 seat.

Elsewhere, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Ali Ameen Gandapur defeated JUI-F's Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman from NA-38 Dera Ismail Khan.

(AP Photo/Tariq Aziz) Source: AP

In Karachi, MQM-P’s leader Farooq Sattar lost his seat in NA-245.

AAP Image/CrowdSpark/Syed Rizwan Ali Source: CrowdSpark.com

PML-N’s leader Abid Sher Ali who had been the former state minister for water and power lost in the NA-108 constituency.

Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, too,  is reported to have lost his seat.

AAP Image/ EPA/T. MUGHAL Source: EPA

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