TOKYO -- Western governments have critiqued Pakistan's elections, while vowing to work with the next government in Islamabad.
Polls that were widely expected to be a cakewalk for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), led by three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, turned into a tense battle with independent candidates backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of jailed leader Imran Khan.
