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PTI chief Imran Khan will be addressing Pakistan in a short while as the mandate turns out to be largely in his favour. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is leading in over 110 seats as the results keep trickling in. Speaking to CNN-News18, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has voiced his support for the mandate in favour of Imran Khan. Musharraf has also said that Khan has never voiced any discontentment against India. Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan is leading in projected partial results of the general elections, as the party of his jailed chief rival, ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N, rejected the eventual result as "blatantly" rigged. Khan's camp is increasingly getting confident, but still appears likely to fall short of a clear majority in the Pakistan National Assembly. Full results are expected later in the morning.
Meanwhile, as results kept trickling in, Pakistan's former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani lost to PTI's Mohammad Ibrahim in Multan's Shujabad constituency. Asad Murtaza Gilani, former PM’s nephew, won the seat in 2002. Murtaza died during a stampede while on Hajj in 2015, following which Gilani decided to fight from the seat. According to local media, some political observers believed that Gilani would look for sympathy votes in Murtaza's name. However, his attempt seems to have gone in vain with Imran Khan's PTI inching close to form the next government in Pakistan. On the other hand, Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed seems to have been rejected by Pakistani voters as none of the candidates associated with extremism in past have leads.
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PPP chairman Asif Zardari wins NA-213 Shaheed Benazirabad 1 with 111,179 votes: unofficial results from all polling stations, reports Geo News.
Imran Khan, who is all set to be the next Pakistan Prime Minister, will be addressing the media soon.
Future Prime Minister of Pakistan @ImranKhanPTI addresses the nation shortly.
— Tehreek-e-Insaf (@InsafPK) July 26, 2018
24 hours & ECP can't give me Lyari and Larkana results. Can’t explain discrepancies or delays: Bilawal Bhutto
22 hours and 100 polling station results missing from Lyari. Absolute farce: PPP's Bakhtawar Zardari. PPP goes back to raise concerns of rigging.
Dr. Mahesh Malani, a PPP Candidate from NA-222 in Sindh, has won against Arbab Zakaullah. First non-Muslim to be elected to the National Assembly on a general seat.
Former Pakistan cricket star and Imran Khan's teammate, Wasim Akram arrives at the latter's residence in Bani Gala to bestow his wishes. (Image credit: PTI/Twitter)
It is heartening to know that the people of Pakistan have rejected extremist forces in the elections. That is the strength of democracy. One always gets to choose: former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti.
In Lyari, Bilawal Bhutto's chief polling agent -- Senator Yousuf Baloch -- given the runaround when he asked for the results. In Larkana, PPP Sindh's President Nisar Khuhro was refused permission to meet the RO when he went to ask about the delay in the results.
Police officers have replaced Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chief Imran Khan's private security guards outside his residence in Bani Gala.
PMLN's Rana Sanaullah alleges 'votes were burnt and replaced' in his constituency, PP-113 in Punjab Province.
SHEHBAZ SHARIF LOSES | PTI's Saleem Rehman defeats PML-N chairman Shehbaz Sharif in Swat by securing 68,162 votes.
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary Babar Yaqoob told reporters early on Thursday that counting had been delayed by technical failures in an electronic reporting system and the tallying was now being conducted manually. The results was to be declared around 2 am on Thursday but is yet to be out.
Imran Khan's PTI is currently leading with 114 seats in the 272-member Pakistan National Assembly. Nawaz Sharif's PML-N has turned out to be the runner-up with 61 seats while Bilawal Bhutto's PPP is running third with 37 seats. Others, including Independents, have bagged 52 seats.
Fehmida Mirza becomes first female lawmaker to have been elected five times on a general seat.
Pakistani cricket icon-turned-politician Imran Khan nudged closer to power on Thursday after a general election that has been marred by long delays in ballot counting and accusations of rigging by opponents. But supporters of jailed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have said the process was an assault on democracy in a country that has a history of military rule.
PTI’s Syed Muhammad Abbas Jaffery wins PS-125, Karachi Central 3 with 30, 687 votes: Unofficial results from all polling stations. MQM’s Abdul Haseeb runner up with 26,818 votes, reports Geo News.
Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan doesn't progress because of India. It's not Pakistan's fault that there is slow movement on peaceful bilateral talks.
Pervez Musharraf to CNN-News18: Imran Khan is hawkish. Nawaz Sharif used to appease India. Imran Khan's reaction is only because of India.
Musharraf: Some in the Indian media were saying how Imran Khan would punish India once in power. That is a very wrong perception. Imran Khan has never said anything about punishing India.
Imran Khan gained experience and confidence of people: Musharraf
Musharraf: Punjab is a large province and it is according to me is even more important than the Centre. Imran Khan will have to keep that in mind.
Musharraf to CNN-News18: Who governs Punjab province is of utmost importance.
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Musharraf: Imran Khan still lacks knowledge of governance. He will have to learn about that.
I don't think the allegations of rigging are true. It is a problem with Pakistan that whoever loses starts complaining about rigging.
Pervez Musharraf: Imran Khan will now have to learn governance, the modalities and how to do and what to do.
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