Two ruling party leaders lose seats in Pakistan elections

By NNN-Xinhua

Islamabad : Two Pakistan’s ruling party leaders had lost their seats in the Monday’s parliamentary elections, Dawn News and Aaj TV reported on Tuesday.


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Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, and Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, the railways minister, lost seats in the vote in Punjab province.

A spokesman for the ruling party said that early results showed the opposition did well in the parliamentary elections.

Shafiq Ahted Khan of the Pakistan People’s Party won a provincial assembly seat in Balochistan.

The Election Commission is still collecting data from all across the country and final results are expected to be announced on Wednesday.

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