PTI leader Hammad Azhar has claimed that authorities “stuffed the parliament” with up to “50 per cent individuals who actually lost elections by an ingenious trick”.

In a post on X, Azhar alleged that the trick was to scribble “an extra digit in front of their vote counts at numerous polling stations”.

Along with his tweet was a collage of multiple documents, which seemed either Forms 47 or Forms 45, with PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif among the candidates listed on them.

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