Prohibited extremist groups, including Hafiz Saeed's party, fired Pak elections

Prohibited and extremist groups, including the leader of the Mumbai attack, Hafiz Saeed, Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek, were categorically rejected by Pakistani voters in the recently concluded legislative elections, the final results of which were been announced today by the Electoral Commission. 19659002] According to the Pakistan Election Commission (ECP), not a single candidate of the All-Akbar Tehreek Party, supported by the banned Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) leader, could get a seat. The results of the ECP show the party candidates got only 171,441 votes, just a drop in the ocean compared to over 100 million registered voters and more than 50 percent stake in the surveys.

Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerged as the largest party in the general election, winning 116 seats in the National Assembly out of the 270 disputed electoral districts, the CEP said. The name of the little known party Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek was pbaded after the ECP rejected Saeed's offer to register Mili Mus League lim. Tehreek-i-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), another party with a clear sectarian mentality, had presented more than 150 candidates for seats in the National Assembly and hundreds of others at provincial bademblies.

The party won 2,191,679 votes and only two of its candidates The TLP is representative of the Sunni sect Brailvi, the largest in Pakistan, and also believes in Sufi Islam

The party has recently shown signs of aggression when his followers He besieged the capital Islamabad last year

However, the party was not involved in any kind of terrorism in Pakistan or beyond its borders .

The parties propagating moderate Islam disputed ballot boxes from the Maftahida platform Majlis-e-Aml Paistan (MMAP)

They won 13 seats while obtaining 2,530,452 votes in total. MMAP is the fifth largest party in terms of total votes, while TLP followed it at number six, according to the results.Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Sami (JUI-S) got only 24,559 votes, at- he adds.

Rejection of the JUI-S candidates are significant because his head is Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the Taliban's godfather and his seminary called "The Jihad University".

Other religious parties ran in the elections and also behaved badly. 19659002] While Tehreek-i-Laibak Islam obtained only 68,022 votes, the Shiite Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan obtained 9,606 votes. The Sunni Council of Ittehad received 5,939, according to the CEP

Pakistan has been the subject of much criticism from local and international media, human rights groups in the country. man and political leaders. Election

Voters in Pakistan rejected candidates with links to extremist or banned groups and scuttled their move to join mainstream politics.