Belt and Road headache awaits Khan as Pakistan PM

Dwindling reserves and mounting debts to put new government in fiscal bind

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Imran Khan, who is expected to become the next prime minister, addresses the nation after the general election results were announced in Islamabad on July 26.

YUJI KURONUMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW DELHI -- For Imran Khan, the man set to become Pakistan's next prime minister, the results of the July 25 general elections represent a victory that has been two decades in the making, but could not have come at a more inopportune moment.

Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the second largest opposition group before the election, ran a campaign focused on improving social security, but delivering on its promises will be a formidable challenge at a time when state finances are in a critical state.

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