Maulana Fazl ur Rehman shocked! JUI lost the seat after 52 years

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has served a major blow to Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) as its candidate Engr. Dawar Khan Kundi is all set to defeat Maulana Asad Mehmood of JUI-F by a convincing margin in today’s poll in NA-25 Dera Ismail Khan. JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman won the seat by obtaining over 90,000 votes in general election 2013 along with two other National Assembly seats. Maulana decided to take oath from NA-24 and vacated the other two seats i.e. NA-25 (D.I.Khan) and NA-27 (Lukky Marwat). Jamiat awarded NA-27 ticket to Maulana Ata-ur-Rehman, former federal minister for tourism while NA-25 went to Maulana Asad Mehmood, son of JUI-F Chief. By-elections in NA-25 were postponed due to security concerns in the area. Jamiat lost NA-27 seat to PTI candidate as well. NA-25 is considered as home constituency of Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman and defeat on this is definitely a major political setback for him. According to unofficial results of Dawar Khan Kundi is leading the polls race by a margin of over 15,000 votes.