Ag APP KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has withheld by-poll results of Karachi’s NA-249 constituency pending a hearing on May 4 after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Miftah Ismail wrote to the chief election commissioner (CEC) requesting a recount. According to a notification by the ECP, the hearing will be held on May 4, and notices have been sent to all respondents. In the meanwhile, the ECP has issued a stay order, withholding results of the by-poll. Ismail had written to the chief election commissioner seeking a vote recount in NA-249 and requested a forensic audit of the votes in the constituency after his party lost by a narrow margin of 683 votes to Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Qadir Mandokhel.