A brief profile of NA-249 constituency's new MNA, Qadir Khan Mandokhail of the PPP
Early Friday morning, 12 hours after the polls closed, Qadir Khan Mandokhail of the Pakistan People’s Party was declared the winner of Karachi’s NA-249 constituency. He secured 16,156 votes, which pushed him to victory.
The runner up was Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Miftah Ismail who lost with a margin of only 683 votes.
It is important for the voters and residents of NA-249 to know who their new member of the National Assembly is.
Here is a short profile:
Qadir Khan Mandokhail, 58, is a lawyer by profession.
In 2002, he contested elections for the first time from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's platform for the PS-89 constituency. But he lost and only managed to secure 1,233 votes.
In 2008, Mandokhail contested independently and five years later, in 2013 he joined the Pakistan Muslim League-N. Back then, he had to drop out of the electoral race when the JUI-F and the PML-N decided on a seat adjustment in Karachi.
In 2018, Mandokhail secured a PPP ticket to contest from NA-249. He lost to PTI’s Faisal Vawda. In fact, the PPP candidate won only 7,236 votes.