Activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir has said that candidates for Karachi’s National Assembly and Sindh Assembly seats are preparing petitions and will file them in the Sindh High Court on Monday against the results of Form-47s for their constituencies in the general elections.

He told Dawn.com that PTI-backed candidate Khurram Sher Zaman has engaged Advocate Muhammed Umer Lakhani to pursue his case for Karachi’s NA-241 against PPP’s Ikhtiar Baig.

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