The results of the general elections held in Pakistan have started coming.
Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is leading. PTI, which is doing better in the results, has claimed to form the government in Pakistan.
PTI says it will not form an alliance with Nawaz Sharif’s party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to form the government.
Barrister Gohar, who is running jailed Imran Khan’s party from outside, told Geo News that he is not in touch with PML-L.
He claimed that PTI is winning 150 National Assembly seats and will be able to get the required number of seats to form the government at the Centre.
Barrister Gauhar Ali Khan said, “We do not intend to form a coalition government with PPP and PML-N. We will form the government in Punjab along with the Centre.”
PTI also claimed to form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said that PTI has a clear lead in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and will form the government there also. He said that PTI will remain at the center and play its role.
Imran’s candidates have an edge
In the general elections held in Pakistan amid allegations of rigging and sporadic violence, independent candidates supported by former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party seem to be getting an edge.
The Election Commission (ECP) began announcing election results late Friday night, more than 10 hours after voting concluded on Thursday, and counting is still underway.
Following criticism from various parties, especially PTI, the ECP accelerated the pace of updating the results in the morning. The prominent leaders who have won include former Prime Minister Sharif, his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif’s son Hamza Shehzad and Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz.
According to the ECP, PTI leaders Gauhar Ali Khan and Asad Qaiser also won. PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal are also leading in their respective seats.
Dozens of parties have entered the fray for this election in Pakistan, but the main contest is between Imran Khan’s party PTI, three-time Prime Minister Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Bilawal Zardari Bhutto’s ‘Pakistan People’s Party’ (PPP). .
133 seats are needed for majority
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is in jail and is banned from contesting elections. Candidates from Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party are contesting the elections as independent candidates after the country’s Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission’s decision to strip his party of its election symbol ‘cricket bat’ .
Voting is held on 266 out of 336 National Assembly seats, but in Bajaur, voting on one seat was postponed after a candidate was killed in an attack.
Another 60 seats are reserved for women and 10 for minorities and are allotted to the winning parties on the basis of proportional representation. To form a new government, any party will have to win 133 seats out of 265.