DERA GHAZI KHAN: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has won all seven NA and 12, out of 14, PA seats in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur district in the July 25 poll.

Khawaja Sheraz won NA-189 by getting 78,596 votes against his rival independent candidate Mir Badshah Qaisrani who obtained 39,522 votes.

The chief of the Khosa tribe, former governor Zulfiqar Khosa, grabbed, after a tough poll, NA-190 with 71,964 votes against independent rival candidate Amjad Farooq Khosa who got 71,854 votes.

The constituents of NA-191 elected Zartaj Gul with 79,817 votes against her rival PML-N’s Awais Leghari who bagged 54,548 votes.

For NA-192, Muhammad Khan Leghari defeated PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif. Mr Leghari got 80,522 votes while Mr Sharif got 67,608 votes.

Khawja Daoud (PTI) won PP-285, Usman Buzdar (PTI) PP-286, Javed Lound (PTI) PP-287, Mohsin Atta Khosa (independent) PP-288, Hanif Pitafi (independent) PP-289, Ahmed Ali Darishak (PTI) PP-290, Mohayodin Khosa (PTI) PP-291, and Muhammad Khan Leghari (PTI) PP-292.

In Rajanpur’s NA-193, Jafar Leghari stood successful by getting 81,149 votes against independent candidate Sher Ali Gorchani who bagged 46,693 votes while PPP’s Shazia Abid obtained 27,170 votes.

Nasrallah Darishak won NA-194 (73,225 votes) against independent candidate Dr Hafeez Darishak (64,565 votes) and independent candidate Ruqaya Bibi (11,062 votes).

For NA-195, Riyaz Khan Mazari won by getting 89,796 votes against PML-N’s Khizar Mazari who bagged 68,872. Former senator Mohsin Leghari (PTI) won PP-293, Hasnain Darishak (PTI) PP-294, Farooq Darishak (PTI) PP-295, Tariq Darishk (PTI) PP-296 and Dost Muhammad Khan Mazari (PTI) PP-297 won the poll.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2018