Peshawar (August 04, 2018): An appeal for vote recount in PK-61 has been submitted in Peshawar High Court (PHC) by Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Pervez Ahmed.
Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Pervez Khattak garnered victory from the constituency.
According to petitioner, the number of Khattak’s votes has been revealed 20,000 which are contrary to the real figure.
He claimed that the polling agents were removed from the room while vote counting.
The petitioner maintains that more than 4000 votes have also been rejected therefore; a vote recount should be ordered in the constituency.
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Returning Officer (RO) Nowshehra and others have been made parties in the case.
Former chief minister Pervez Khattak and former provincial education minister Mohammad Atif Khan are the two candidates being considered for the position of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister.
Earlier on Monday, Khattak gathered 42 newly elected representatives of the K-P assembly who secured their seats on a PTI ticket at the Speaker House in Peshawar to show his ‘strength’ to competitors for the CM slot. However, talking to media after the meeting, Khattak refuted news regarding lobbying in PTI and said that the meeting was just a get-together to celebrate the party’s victory.
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