ISLAMABAD -- The parties of Pakistan's dueling former Prime Ministers Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif have both claimed they can form governments after the country's general elections, while protests spread over allegations that the results were tampered with.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) finished releasing provisional results on Sunday afternoon for 264 of 266 contestable seats, with one result withheld and one vote postponed. The numbers, out long after they were expected early Friday, showed independents -- mostly backed by the jailed Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) -- leading with 101 seats. They were followed by Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) at 75 and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at 54.
