PTI rejects local body elections results, Jamat-e-Islami decries delay.

KARACHI -- As results continue to come out slowly for the local government elections in Karachi, Jamat-e-Islami (JI) has denounced the delay while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rejected the results.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi, JI Karachi President Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman said: "We are not getting the results from the returning officers (RO) despite over 18 hours of delay since the conclusion of polling."

He strongly condemned the delay and called on the authorities concerned to stop the ROs who are "trying to change the results".

Rehman also alleged that over 30 voters' lists were flawed but still a reasonable number of people came out to vote.

He said that a lot of people from the PPP also voted for JI. He further said that his party has won over 100 seats, adding that there is ambiguity on the rest of the seats.

"We have conducted these elections by...

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