QUETTA, Oct 15: Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party has appealed to the Election Commission to review its decision to hold re-elections in NA-262 and two provincial assembly constituencies as the party had already won these seats by a big margin.

The chairman PMAP, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, said this at a new conference here with Abdul Rahim Mandokhel senior deputy chairman and Syed Akram Shah general secretary of the party.

Achakzai said that he himself was a candidate in NA-262 Killa Abdullah constituency and bagged 33,230 votes; Maulana Hanif of the MMA, 23,949; and Bismillah Khan of the PPP, 17,976 votes.

Similarly, in PB-12 Killa Abdullah-II, the PMAP candidate Nasim Taryalai got 9,611 votes; Sarwar Piralizai of ANP, 7,476 votes; and Maulvi Abdullah of MMA, 3,584 votes.

According to the result from PB-12 Killa Abdullah-III, the PMAP candidate Abdul Majeed Achakzai won the seat by obtaining 15,312 votes. The other two candidates, Wali Mohammad received 9,087 and Mullah Ghulam Haider of MMA got 7,287 votes.

He said that the PMAP has won all three seats and it was the RO’s and the DRO’s responsibility to announce the result, instead, the results were declared cancelled and re-election was announced.

He alleged that his rivals’ supporters beat up the polling staff and presiding officers in the presence of the security staff and pressured them not to announce the election result.

He demanded that re-polling should not be allowed.

However, he demanded that re-election should be held at the polling stations of PB-11 Killa Abdullah-1 where armed men opened fire and beat up the election staff.

Mehmood Khan Achakzai said that despite the ban on the display of arms no case has been registered against these men.