Lahore: In a stunning development, a hardline cleric having links with banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), won by-election for a Punjab Assembly seat, defeating over two dozen candidates including those fielded by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Maulana Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi, son of Sunni militant group Sipah-e-Sahaba's slain founder Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, won the Punjab Assembly's PP-78 by-election in Jhang district of the province. PTI