Pakistan, Sept. 14 -- Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Attaullah Shah has won the GBA-16 Diamer II seat after postal ballot verification and counting. The Gilgit-Baltistan Election Commission released the final consolidated results on Monday. Shah secured 6,618 votes and defeated Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party candidate Imam Malik by 13 votes.

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The Election Commission had initially declared Malik the returned candidate for the seat. However, Shah challenged the result before an election tribunal. He argued that the returning officer issued Form-49 without counting the postal ballots.

On September 11, the tribunal ordered verification and counting of the postal ballots by September ...