PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his party’s candidate and father Asif Zardari managed to receive 411 votes in the presidential elections while the SIC-backed candidate Mehmood Khan Achakzai — the home of PTI independents — only managed to get 181 votes.

In a post on X, the former foreign minister said Zardari received 255 votes from the National Assembly and Senate, 151 from the Sindh Assembly, 246 in Punjab, 17 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 47 in the Balochistan Assembly.

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