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Pak Bypolls: second round ends

Islamabad, Oct 21 (UNI) Second round of polling ended on Sunday for by-elections held in three national and provincial assemblies constituencies in Karachi and Peshawar amidst strict security.
A total of 858,866 male and female voters were eligible to cast their ballots in today's by-polls for the National Assembly constituency of National Assembly (NA)-247 Karachi, the provincial assembly seats Province of Sindh (PS)-111 Karachi and Province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (PK)-71 Peshawar, Dawn reported.
The three seats were vacated after the candidates elected on them in the July 25 general elections tendered their resignations. All three of the winners belonged to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).
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