Imran Khan

The 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party demanded the CEC’s resignation, asserting that he had “no right to stay in the position for a single day,” the Dawn newspaper reported.

Though independent candidates backed by the party won the maximum number of seats in Parliament, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) – have announced that they will form a coalition government after the February 8 elections resulted in a hung Parliament.

The protesters chanted slogans, demanding the restoration of their “stolen mandate”. They called for rectified results based on the vote count as per Form 45, prepared at polling stations under the watch of political parties’ polling agents.

Former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha on Saturday alleged that the candidates who were "losing" the elections "were made to win" in the city

The protests began with a march in Wana in South Waziristan of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The decision was announced by Barrister Ali Saif of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , a day after the party had named Umar Ayub Khan as its candidate for the prime minister and Aslam Iqbal as chief minister for Punjab.

Omar said that PTI-backed MNA (Member of the National Assembly) from Sialkot, Aslam Ghumman had been abducted by unknown people, referring towards intelligence agencies.

PTI has learnt a lesson from its past mistake of resigning from Parliament and from Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial assemblies in 2022 which added to its hardships.

Ahead of Pakistan elections, ride-haling company Careem posted a message that read, 'program warr gaya' which roughly translates to "program gone bust". It also happens to be using a catchphrase popularised by the supporters of his rival Imran Khan.

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Votes are still being counted after the general election which was marred by allegations of rigging, sporadic violence and a countrywide mobile phone shutdown.

Two days after the polling was held, the results were not yet complete and the country appeared headed to a hung Parliament or a coalition government.

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Pakistan's national elections result in no clear majority, with Imran Khan loyalist candidates performing strongly in the vote counting.

In the message, Khan rejected rival Nawaz Sharif's earlier claim to victory.

Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan declared victory on Friday in elections plagued by delayed results and militant strikes, plunging the country deeper into political uncertainty.

PTI leader Gohar Ali Khan won NA-10 in the Buner area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with 110,023 votes, according to the ECP. He defeated Awami National Party candidate Abdul Rauf who came second with 30,302 votes.

Independent candidates backed by Khan’s party have won 55 out of the 139 National Assembly results announced by the election commission so far following unusual delays, leading to allegations of vote rigging. The PML-N has bagged 43 seats while PPP has won 35.

A court determined that Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, and his wife Bushra Khan's 2018 marriage violated the law, and they were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined on Saturday, according to his party.

Speaking to the media outside the Adiala jail, Imran Khan’s lawyer, Barrister Gohar Khan, said that “shameless, scandalous and unethical allegations” have been made for political motives.