MuzaffarabadA returning officer declared a winner after promising he would wait.
The paperwork, not the ballots, now decides who leads Pakistan’s Azad Kashmir government.
Form 27 named Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Faisal Rathore winner by 1,518 votes, sending Mohsin Aziz’s challenge to a tribunal instead of a recount.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Haveli branch begins an indefinite strike Thursday demanding all ballot bags reopened.
Sources: Dawn