Screenshot of Shahbaz Sharif at Lahore presser — DawnNews
Screenshot of Shahbaz Sharif at Lahore presser — DawnNews

PML-N frontrunner Shahbaz Sharif is raising questions about the vote counting process at a press conference in Lahore.

"Until a little while ago, no official results of Lahore constituency were in," said Shahbaz. "From Rahim Yar Khan to the rest of Pakistan, we are getting complaints that we [PMLN polling agents] are not getting form 45 and that our people are being removed from polling stations."

"We reject this result," he said about the preliminary vote count.

Courtesy @CMShehbaz

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