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Today’s results are both clear and complicated. Independent candidates – many of whom would have run under the banner of the PTI party but were prevented from doing so – have taken the largest number of seats. However the PML-N, led by pre-election frontrunner Nawaz Sharif, can currently claim to …

With most results now declared in Pakistan’s election, no political force has a clear majority but candidates linked to jailed former PM Imran Khan have won most seats so far. The results have defied expectations and Mr Khan is claiming victory. However another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has …

Pakistan’s powerful army chief has urged the country to leave “anarchy and polarisation” behind as two ex-prime ministers declared victory in an election that has defied expectations. With most results in, independent candidates linked to jailed former PM Imran Khan have won most seats. But Nawaz Sharif, another ex-PM widely …

Pakistan’s second and third political blocs have agreed to co-operate after elections in which jailed ex-PM Imran Khan’s supporters came first. Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif’s PMLN and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s PPP issued a statement saying they planned to work together to bring political stability. If they do form a government, the …

Pakistanis still do not know which party will form their next government or who their next prime minister will be four days after the hotly contested general elections. Despite former PM Imran Khan’s detention and the many hurdles thrown at his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), independent candidates backed by the party …