Pakistan Peoples Party won seven National Assembly seats from Karachi and 42 from all districts of Sindh while Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) won 13 National Assembly seats from Karachi and one from Hyderabad.
Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Khurshid Shah, Naveed Qamar, Nafisa Shah, while MQM-P's Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Mustafa Kamal, Farooq Sattar and Aminul Haque won and reached lower house. Apart from PPP and MQM-P, candidates of no other party could win the 22 seats of National Assembly in Karachi. In 2018, the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) had won two seats of the National Assembly, but in the general elections 2024, GDA could not win any seats. Form-47 for all constituencies were issued only after 30 hours of polling for general elections.
Inconclusive, however, according to the Form-47 results released by Returning Officers, PPP won 42 of 61 National Assembly seats from Sindh, including six seats in Karachi.
Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Khurshid Shah, Makhdoom Jameel-uz-Zaman, Nafeesa Shah, Shazia Mari, Abdul Qadir Patel are among the main leaders of PPP who won.
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Meanwhile, Nabil Gabol has won the Lyari seat where PPP was defeated in 2018, while Asad Alam Niazi won for the first time from east district.
Among the 14 National Assembly seats that MQM-P won in Sindh, Syed Wasim Hussain from NA-220 Hyderabad, Asia Ishaq from NA-232 Korangi, Javed Hanif from NA-233 Korangi, Aamir Moin Peerzada from NA-234 Korangi, Mohammad Iqbal Khan from NA 235 East, to Hassan Sabir from NA 236 East, Sadiq Iftikhar from NA 238 East, Arshad Abdullah NA 240 South, Mustafa Kamal NA242 Kemari, Dr. Farooq Sattar NA244 west, Khawaja Izhar from NA 247, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui from NA 248, Ahmad Salim Siddiqui from NA 249 and Farhan Chishti from NA 250.
Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rahman could not win from both seats of the National Assembly.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th 2024.
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