With only two more weeks to go before polls, two political parties have found themselves caught up in cases of candidates supposedly withdrawing from the electoral battle in favour of others. The reality, as concluded by fact-checking platform iVerify Pakistan, is that neither of the alleged withdrawals came from the parties concerned.

Posts circulating on social media claimed that MQM-P withdrew its candidate from Malir’s NA-230 constituency in favour of ASWJ’s Aurangzeb Farooqui. The posts did not identify the time, date or place where the political gathering in the attached video took place.

Read the full story from iVerify Pakistan here.

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