Dawn: PTI front runner despite losing seats in by-polls

In this file photo, supporters of Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan, attend an election campaign rally by Khan in Charsadda district, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (AFP)

October 15 – Dawn report by Amir Wasim and Mansoor Malik states that after a neck-and-neck contest, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) managed to win most of the seats in Sunday’s by-elections on 11 National and 24 provincial assembly seats with the PML-N seems to be edging past the PTI in Punjab. Most of the seats where by-elections were held had been vacated by those elected on more than one seat in the July 25 general elections, including Prime Minister Imran Khan who won in all the five NA constituencies he had contested.

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