PML-Q grabs NA-216 seat

Published January 17, 2003

KHAIRPUR, Jan 16: The Pakistan Muslim League-F candidate, Jawed Ali Shah Jilani, has secured the seat of NA-216 (Khaipur) by getting 128,783 votes, according to unofficial results.

His rival candidate, Ahmed Raza Shah Jilani, of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, bagged 4,549 votes, despite boycotting the by-election on the polling day.

Jawed Jilani, while talking to newsmen here on Thursday, said that the allegations of rigging levelled by Khairpur District Nazim Nafisa Shah were baseless.

WORK HALTED: The district Nazim, Nafisa Shah, stopped the work on the development and beautification project at the Mirwah Canal on Thursday.

During her visit of the site, she inspected the work and found that low quality material was being used in it.

The Mirwah Canal passes through Khairpur and is used by the residents of the city as a picnic point.

BODY RECOVERED: The body of a teenage boy, Manthar Ali Mari, 18, was recovered near a graveyard close to the Baggar Mori, Faiz Ganj taluka.

The killers had sprinkled kerosene on his body and had put it on fire.

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