SIALKOT, Aug 19: None of the divided groups of the ruling PML could get majority, though each of them claimed so, according to reports pouring in from different stations.

The unofficial results of all union councils could not be announced till Friday night due to which the picture was not clear. The counting process was going on.

The elections were held for the seats of 124 urban and rural union councils.

Interestingly, the ruling PML high command has yet to declare its nominee, though it seems to be inclined towards National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Ameer Husain’s group. All five split groups claimed a landslide victory.

Speaking to journalists on Friday, the NA speaker claimed that his group had bagged 12 union council nazim seats in his electoral constituency and more than 60 per cent other seats across Sialkot.

On the other hand, Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Cabinet Division Dr Firdaus Ashiq Awan claimed that his group had bagged more than 35 different seats in the district.

Much more ambitious was the claim of former district nazim Mian Naeem Javed, who told journalists that his group had won more than 70 per cent of the seats in Sialkot district. The PML Ajmal Cheema Group, however, could get a few seats as claimed by it.

In Sialkot city’s Model Town union council, a PML-N hopeful defeated Mian Naeem’s brother Mian Aleem Javed for naib nazim slot, unofficial results said.

The Ajmal Cheema group fully supported the PML-N and the PPP candidates in this union council.

Sialkot’s known Variyo family claimed that it had won almost all seats in Sialkot and Pasrur tehsils’ rural areas.

The results further said the PML-N candidates had so far won seats of nazims in eight out of 12 urban union councils in Sialkot city. It has also bagged four seats in five urban union councils in Daska city.

NA SPEAKER: Chaudhry Ameer Husain ruled out any possibility of rigging.