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Pakistan\u2019s national election vote count concluded on Sunday with independents, mostly backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, winning 101 of the 264 seats, the election commission\u2019s website showed.<\/p>\n
The final tally was released more than 60 hours after voting concluded in Thursday\u2019s national elections, a delay that has raised questions about the process.<\/p>\n
The independents came in ahead of the party of another former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, which won 75 seats, making it the largest single party in parliament as Khan\u2019s independents ran as individuals.<\/p>\n
Sharif has said his party is talking to other groups to form a coalition government as it had failed to win a clear majority on its own.<\/p>\n
Khan\u2019s PTI party had threatened to hold nationwide peaceful protests on Sunday if the vote tally was not released overnight, and some small protests took place overnight.<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s interim government says the delay was caused by communication issues due to a mobile internet outage on election day. The outage, which authorities said was for security reasons, drew concern from rights groups and foreign governments, including the United States.<\/p>\n
In a post on social media platform X on Sunday, a PTI party secretary called off general protests, but said there should be demonstrations at certain electoral offices where they were concerned about \u201cforged\u201d results.<\/p>\n
Around 93 of the independent candidates who won seats were associated with Khan\u2019s PTI party.<\/p>\n
Khan\u2019s supporters were running as independents because they had been barred from contesting the polls under his party\u2019s electoral symbol by the election commission for not complying with electoral laws.<\/p>\n
Despite the ban and Khan\u2019s imprisonment for convictions on charges ranging from leaking state secrets to corruption and an unlawful marriage, millions of the former cricketer\u2019s supporters came out to vote for him, even though he cannot be part of any government while he remains in prison.<\/p>\n
One disadvantage the independents face in trying to form a government is they are not eligible to be allocated any of parliament\u2019s 70 reserved seats, which are distributed according to party strength in the final tally. Sharif\u2019s party could get up to 20 of these seats.<\/p>\n
The election commission previously flagged that results for two seats could not yet be included \u2014 one in which a candidate was killed requiring the postponement of polling, and another in which polling would be completed later this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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