Public Trust in Ballot Box Politics Could Weaken Further in Balochistan
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Public Trust in Ballot Box Politics Could Weaken Further in Balochistan

The Diplomat  

Like other provinces in Pakistan, Balochistan voted in elections to the national and provincial assemblies on February 8. Of the 51 seats in the Balochistan Assembly, the Pakistan People’s Party won 11 seats, followed by the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz with 10 seats, Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam with 11, independent candidates with six, the Balochistan Awami Party with four, and the National Party with three. The BNP, one of Balochistan’s largest political parties, won only one seat in the provincial assembly and two seats in the National Assembly. According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, in NA-264, Akhtar Mengal, the 61-year-old former chief minister of Balochistan, was defeated by 25-year-old Siraj Raisani of the PPP. This was the case in NA-259 Kech-Gwadar, where Malik Shah Gorgaij of the PPP won against the immensely popular NP politician and former Balochistan Chief Minister Dr. Abdul Malik and the HDT’s Hussain Wadela.

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