{
  "id": 947517,
  "title": "Balloting underway at 23 polling stations in 2 constituencies of AJK's Bagh district",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/balloting-underway-at-23-polling-stations-in-2-constituencies-of-ajks-947517",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-15T03:41:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2023001/balloting-underway-at-23-polling-stations-in-2-constituencies-of-ajks-bagh-district"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Balloting is underway at 23 polling stations in two constituencies of AJK's Bagh district. Polling began at 8am and will continue until 5pm. In the third phase of voting on Monday, PPP's Sardar Ziaul Qamar secured 16,637 votes in LA-15 (Bagh Central), while PML-N's Mushtaq Ahmed Minhas received 15,015 votes, and Jamaat-i-Islami's retired Brig Dr Muhammad Khan received 12,259 votes. However, the commission withheld the results for LA-16 (Eastern Bagh) due to polling not taking place at 14 stations with a combined 7,238 registered voters.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dawn - Pakistan",
        "title": "Balloting underway at 23 polling stations in 2 constituencies of AJK's Bagh district",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/balloting-underway-at-23-polling-stations-in-2-constituencies-of-ajks",
        "published": "2026-08-15T03:41:07.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}