Pakistan ruling party wins key by-election in Lahore

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Former Pakistani prime minister's wife Kulsoom secures vacated seat in poll seen as political barometer.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: Al Jazeera
By Asad Hashim | September 17, 2017

Lahore, Pakistan - Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoom has won a hotly contested by-election seen as the ruling PML-N party's first key political challenge following the ex-premier's recent dismissal.

Kulsoom, 66, comfortably defeated the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Yasmin Rashid in the by-poll in the eastern city of Lahore, considered the Sharifs' political heartland, on Sunday, unofficial results showed.

Earlier in the day, long lines of voters were seen at many of the NA-120 electoral constituency's 220 polling stations.

Kulsoom was contesting the seat vacated by Nawaz Sharif after his dismissal by the country's Supreme Court in July over an omission in his parliamentary wealth declarations.

Her campaign has been spearheaded by Maryam Nawaz, the couple's daughter and Nawaz' political heir apparent, in her first real foray into electoral politics. Kulsoom herself is undergoing treatment in the United Kingdom for her recently diagnosed lymphoma.

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