islamabad
Rawalpindi city, bastion of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) since 1985 non-party based elections, is snatched by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidates on both National Assembly and three out of four provincial assembly seats from the city.
While the N-League candidates have also suffered defeat on a few National and provincial assembly seats in Rawalpindi district and Federal Capital.
According to the unofficial results PML-N candidates from both NA-55 and NA-56 have lost elections to Sh. Rashid Ahmad and Imran Khan respectively. Sh. Rashid Ahmad, chief of his own faction of Muslim League, has contested elections in alliance with PTI. On the subordinate provincial assembly seats under NA-55, PP-11 and PP-12, the candidates of PTI had won with clear majority while on subordinate seats under NA-56, PP-13 and PP-14, one seat each was shared by the PML-N and PTI candidates.
Since 1985 it was the worst defeat PML-N has witnessed from the city, which is dubbed as Mini-Riwind and fortress of the party. While in the neighbouring NA-53 one of the party stalwart Ch. Nisar Ali Khan has also suffered defeat at the hands of PTI candidate Ghulam Sawrar Khan.
However, in the adjacent NA-52 Ch. Nisar Ali Khan won the seat for third time in a row, since the carving out of this constituency after 2002 delimitation.
The two subordinate constituencies under NA-52 and 53 PP-6 and PP-7 respectively Ch. Nisar Ali Khan lost both these seats.
Interestingly on one of these two provincial assembly seats (PP-6) he was contesting as independent candidate. On one of the two National Assembly constituencies in Federal Capital, NA-48, PTI candidate Makhdom Javid Hashmi had defeated the PML-N candidate Anjum Aqeel Khan.