The counting of votes is underway in Pakistan for the nation’s nationwide and provincial elections. The polls didn’t deliver excellent news for Nawaz Sharif who is claimed to have the backing of the Pakistani military. Whereas Sharif was anticipating a win, in an sudden flip of occasions, unbiased candidates receiving assist from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) gave the impression to be gaining momentum within the preliminary outcomes launched late on Thursday, creating ripples all through the political panorama. This stunning growth unfolded regardless of the continued imprisonment of the occasion’s founder, Imran Khan, and amid considerations about an uneven enjoying discipline.
The scenario is such that Nawaz Sharif, who contested two seats – Lahore and Mansehra – confronted defeat from one in all them. Sharif received the Lahore seat however misplaced to PTI-backed unbiased candidate Yasmin Rashid from the Mansehra seat.
Regardless of assurances from the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) relating to the well timed disclosure of election outcomes, not a single constituency’s consequence was introduced by 2 o’clock, inflicting frustration and heightened uncertainty in an already tense political atmosphere. The outcomes have been to be declared by 2 am however the identical has not been achieved even by 1 pm at this time. Because the counting was halted, PTI alleged rigging of votes in favour of PML-N.
Nonetheless, within the early hours of Friday, as a restricted variety of outcomes began to emerge, supporters of all PTI-backed unbiased candidates gathered on the occasion’s central secretariat, initiating celebrations labelled as victory. PTI Chairman Gauhar Khan asserted that their candidates have been main on 150 Nationwide Meeting seats. Sharif’s PML-N and Bilawal Bhutto’s Pakistan Individuals’s Get together have been main on 47 seats every.
These projections got here as a shock for the occasion of three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Nonetheless, just like the ECP, the PML-N additionally maintained a reserved stance with out making any public statements. Voters will elect 266 candidates to the Pakistan Nationwide Meeting, who will later, by a majority vote, elect the subsequent prime minister.
