Islamabad, Pakistan: Imran Khan and his party Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) have won the Pakistani general elections as the single largest party. But the international observers stated that the polling process was not up to the mark as it was earlier in the previous general election.

The party under the Imran Khan has won at least 116 out of the 272 directly elected National Assembly seats in Wednesday’s election, according to results released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) showed on Friday – as the results from four constituencies under waiting.

Khan’s party still needs at least 137 seats to form the government at the Centre and has begun contacting smaller political forces with the target of putting together a coalition.

The imprisoned former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’ party Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) will have to be in opposition for the next five years.

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) got a total 43 seats, and the other smaller parties got other remaining seats.

The total voter turnout as per the statistics was reported to be 51.78 percent of the more than 105 million eligible voters, a slight drop from the earlier 2013 general election. 0

Elections were suspended in at least two constituencies after the incidents of violent attacks during the campaign, and elections will be held soon there at a much later date.

The PML-N will be the leader of a multiparty conference in the capital of Islamabad on Friday, after it and many other parties which include the PPP and religious party coalition Muttahida Majlis e Amal (MMA) alleged widespread irregularities.

All those parties claimed that representatives were not allowed to oversee the vote counting in many of those districts and were later given statements of results that were completely inconsistent with legal requirements.

Imran Khan on Thursday said that his party is ready to fully support any type of investigation into the allegations of poll rigging.

The European Union’s observer mission commented that the election suffered from the lack of a playing field, and all those irregularities had been, according to it, in the vote counting process.

“Our assessment is that, overall, the elections of 2018 were not as good as in 2013,” Michael Gahler, the EU’s chief observer who has monitored several general elections in Pakistan, said in a press conference in Islamabad.

The assessment was declared by the European Union appeared to be “a systematic effort to undermine the former ruling party (PML-N) through cases of corruption, contempt of court and terrorist charges against its leaders and candidates”.

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