Shehbaz gears up pace of contacts with Maulana Fazl, PML-Q, PPP

LAHORE: Political parties have geared up the pace of making contacts for government making.
Sources said PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif has accelerated the pace of efforts to pacify Maulana Fazlur Rehman and requested for telephonic contact .
Shehbaz Sharif has geared up pace of contacts with PPP and PML-Q as well.
As per sources Maulana Fazlur Rehman will meet Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif and Chaudhry Shujaat as well.
Sources said there is harmony of views between PML-N and MQM. Both the parties are ready to cooperate with each other.
MQM sources said we have kept all the options open. We will hold talks whatever party contacts us.
Ahsan secures highest votes from NA-89
Independent candidate Jamal Ahsan Khan has secured the highest votes in general elections across the country from NA-89, the ancestral constituency of the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Mianwali.
According to the official results announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Jamal Ahsan has taken a record 217,427 votes in the constituency.
The other National Assembly constituencies, where candidates secured record votes, included NA-67, Hafizabad in which independent candidate Aneeqa Mehdi Bhatti secured 211,039 votes against her opponent candidate.
Similarly, from NA-110, Jhang, independent candidate Ameer Sultan got 199,590 votes. In NA-18 Haripur, another independent candidate Umar Ayub Khan got 192,948 votes.
Umair Niazi from NA-90, Mianwali got 179,820 votes, Nawab Yusuf Talpur of Pakistan Peoples Party candidate secured 175,162 votes from NA-213 Umarkot Sindh, Aun Saqlain got 172,576 votes from NA-128 Lahore, Quaid Pakistan Muslim League-N Nawaz Sharif got 179,310 votes from NA-130 Lahore.
According to the statistics released by the ECP, as many as 150 candidates of the National Assembly have secured more than 100,000 votes in the different constituencies of the National Assembly in the general elections.