Extremist and banned groups, including Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-backed Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek, have been rejected outright by the Pakistani voters in the just-concluded general elections whose final results were announced today by the election commission.
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Saeed’s Milli Muslim League, which was denied registration as a political party, had fielded 265 candidates under the banner of AAT, a dormant political party that was already registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan. Saeed’s son Hafiz Talha Saeed and son-in-law Khalid Waleed were among the contestants. But none from the family, or the party, emerged victorious.
Hundreds of individuals linked with hardline and banned groups were competing in the polls but so far, according to the results, none of them was seen as winning a seat in the national or provincial assemblies.
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerged as the single largest party in the general elections, winning 116 National Assembly seats out of the contested 270 parliamentary constituencies
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