PTI leader Malik Amir Dogar has said political parties that were forming a government based on Forms-47 have “no shame as they returned to the lower house of parliament with a stolen mandate”.

“The ones sitting inside the assembly are the people who won on Form 47s,” he said while speaking to the media outside the National Assembly.

Dogar alleged that the parties that stole the election mandate also approached the Election Commission of Pakistan to “steal” PTI and Sunni Ittehad Council’s reserved seats.

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