Amid accusations of fraud and military meddling in the just concluded election, Pakistan's former cricket captain Imran Khan is to become prime minister. His party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won 109 of the 269 seats in parliament. However, considering that the party did not win an outright majority of seats, he will begin talks on forming a coalition to govern the country.
Official results declared him the winner of the election after an acrimonious campaign marred by violence and accusations of fraud.
Imran Khan's supporters celebrate election victory
65-year-old Khan told supporters :
“God has given me a chance to come to power to implement the ideology which I started 22 years ago.”
The chances are that Mr Khan will seek a coalition with the Pakistan Peoples Party, led by Bilawal Bhutto, son of the late Benazir Bhutto, which won 39 seats.
The Oxford-educated politician who led his country to victory in the 1992 World Cup had left London high society in 1996 to return to his homeland. He thereafter entered politics.
Opposition parties denounced Mr Khan’s victory and claimed that nationwide vote-rigging would ruin the country. Many of them said that their agents were thrown out of polling stations and counting rooms by soldiers, meaning they could not watch votes being tallied.
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