By-elections: PTI loses NA seat to PPP in Karachi
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The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has lost a National Assembly seat to the Pakistan People’s Party in the by-election.
As per the results of 160 polling stations of NA-237 Karachi, PPP candidate Abdul Hakeem Baloch secured the seat by bagging more than 24000 votes while Imran Khan got 18,617 votes.
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The PTI has also lost its seat to the PPP in Multan where the son of Yousaf Raza Gilani beat the daughter of Shah Mehmood Qureshi by a considerable margin.
The PTI won the Multan seat in the 2018 general election. Musa lost the polls to Zain Qureshi the son of the former foreign minister in 2018.