PESHAWAR, Oct 14: The JUI-F on Tuesday filed a petition in a Pakistani high court seeking to annul the recent election of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s chief minister, and declare it “null and void”. Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sohail Afridi was elected as the new Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province during an assembly session marred by the opposition’s walkout on Monday. Afridi secured 90 votes, while rival candidates from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) received none. The petition was filed in the Peshawar High Court by JUI-F candidate and Member of the Provincial Assembly, Maulana Lutfur Rehman, the younger brother of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Re

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