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| Projected electoral triumph eludes PML-F |
| 2013-05-14 |
| [Dawn] All projections about the emergence of the Pakistain Musselmen League-Functional as a serious contender to Pakistain Peoples Party and its ability to erode the party's traditional vote bank turned upside down by the unofficial poll results so far made available to the media. The PML-F, which was spearheading a 10-party alliance it had cobbled together against the PPP, has barely managed to hold onto its traditional constituencies. The party has reportedly got seven provincial assembly seats in the province. It had fielded 98 candidates, in all, for National Assembly and provincial assembly seats. The party itself was quite optimistic about making major gains in the PPP's strongholds like Badin, Matiari, Umerkot, etc but the results, albeit unofficial, tell a different story. Not to mention the party's failure to throw up a major surprise it has suffered a setback in Shikarpur where it expected a clean sweep. "In Shikarpur, we will have a clean sweep," PML-F Sindh general secretary Imtiaz Sheikh had told Dawn a few days before the polls. |
| Posted by:Fred |