PML-N accepts defeat in Punjab by-elections: Malik Ahmad

Lahore: PML-N leader Malik Ahmad Khan said the party had accepted defeat in Punjab by-elections.

"I accept from my heart that the PTI has got historic win," Khan said while talking to a local news channel.

To a question regarding PML-N’s strategy for the election for the position of the Punjab Chief Minister, scheduled to be held on July 22, Khan said: “I spoke to Hamza Shehbaz and he was of the view that people have expressed their choice, so we need to acknowledge it."

PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Imran Khan's ideology had defeated the 11-party coalition.

He said the PTI remained successful depsite the fact that all state machinary and resources were at the disposal of the ruling party.