ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) made mistakes in first phase of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) local government elections and paid the price.
In a post on social-networking website Twitter, Khan said, “Wrong candidate selection was a major cause. From now on I will personally be overseeing PTI’s LG election strategy in second phase of KP LG elections and LG elections across Pakistan. PTI will come out as stronger in upcoming polls.”
It may be noted Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) followed by the Awami National Party (ANP) won the majority of the seats in the city, tehsil councils (TCs) and village councils (VCs) in the local government elections held on Sunday.
The JUI-F got five of the top slots in Peshawar while ANP and PTI won one each, as per the provisional results of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Four main political parties had a tough clash for the top slot of the mayor of the metropolitan city and six tehsils in Peshawar.