Pakistan Views

Pro-Musharraf ruling PML-Q bigwigs including Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain were defeated by their rivals in home constituencies, the electoral battlefields they have dominated for decades.
Pakistan Peoples Party leader and former commerce minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has defeated his traditional rival and PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain by a margin of over 14,000 votes in Gujrat-2 constituency, hometown of Chaudhry brothers.
Five times winner Sheikh Rashid Ahmed from Rawalpindi was defeated miserably by PML-N’s Hanif Abbasi and Javed Hashmi where he ruled for over two decades. Former speaker national Assembly, Chaudhary Amir Hussain was defeated by a female candidate Firdous Ashiq of PPPP who had recently joined it after developing differences with PML (Q) leadership
Former defence minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal, a closed aide of President Pervez Musharraf too lost his seat to PPPP Sajjadul Hassan by a big margin. PML-Q’s stalwart Hamid Nasir Chatta was defeated by Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema in Gujranwala.
Former opposition in the National Assembly and chief of the JUI-F, Maulana Fazalur Rehman has also lost seat in his native town Dera Ismail Khan and reportedly succeeded winning a National Assembly seat in Bannu.
Faisal Saleh Hayat defeated Syeda Abida Hussain traditional political rival from National Assembly in Jhang with a big number. Umer Khan former vocal state minister and grandson of former dictator, Field Martial Mohammad Ayub Khan also defeated to his rival at his hometown Harripur.
Besides, former federal minister for water and power Liaquat Jotoi, former Commerce Minister Hamayun Akhtar Khan, former Minister for Religious Affairs Ijazul Haq have also lost their seats.