{"id":289655,"date":"2022-10-17T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=289655"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:39:22","slug":"pti-suffers-setback-in-multan-as-musa-defeats-meher-bano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pti-suffers-setback-in-multan-as-musa-defeats-meher-bano\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI suffers setback in Multan as Musa defeats Meher Bano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPP leader wins with a margin of nearly 20,000 votes<br \/>\nMULTAN<br \/>\nIn a setback to Imran Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Democratic Movement\u2019s (PDM) joint candidate Musa Gilani defeated PTI candidate Meher Bano Qureshi.<br \/>\nMusa \u2014 the son of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani \u2014 bagged 79,743 votes and took a lead of 19,750 as Meher \u2014 the daughter of PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi \u2014 was able to secure 59,993 votes, according to unofficial results.<br \/>\nTough competition was expected between the two candidates as nearly 10 years ago, in early 2012, Gilani won the NA seat from Multan that was vacated by Qureshi, who had joined the PTI by then.<br \/>\nIn a press conference after the unofficial results were in, Yousaf told journalists that he was thankful to PPP for awarding his son the ticket and praised PML-N and the coalition alliance for supporting Musa.<br \/>\n\u201cI am thankful to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, and PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman,\u201d the ex-prime minister said.<br \/>\nGillani also slammed PTI Chairman Khan and said that his narrative had led to instability in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s the use of contesting elections when he [Imran Khan] has to resign from other seats,\u201d he said, urging the people of South Punjab to reject the PTI chief\u2019s narrative.<br \/>\n\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a contest between Gillani and Qureshi clan, instead it was a fight against Khan\u2019s narrative,\u201d he asserted.<br \/>\nThe former premier said that the leaders need to think about the benefit of the country and not about their parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPP leader wins with a margin of nearly 20,000 votes MULTAN In a setback to Imran Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Democratic Movement\u2019s (PDM) joint candidate Musa Gilani defeated PTI candidate Meher Bano Qureshi. 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