Islamabad, Pakistan: PTI Top Brass Imran Khan declared victory in the general elections of Pakistan as results started pouring in a day after the vote.

PTI or Pakistan Movement for Justice of Pakistan secured a commanding lead with bagging nearly half the votes counted in Wednesday’s election.

A total majority of 137 seats is needed to form a proper government.

Millions of citizens of Pakistan flocked to election centers to exercise their ballot amid violence, which included a suicide attack in the western city of Quetta that claimed at least 31 lives.

The leader of PTI, Imran Khan expressed his will to develop “trade ties” with India, adding that leaders of both countries should resolve to solve the Kashmir dispute.

“I say this with the conviction that it is in the interest of the subcontinent that India and Pakistan get along,” he said in his speech. “Take one step towards us, we will take two steps towards you. We need to have a dialogue to settle our issues.”

Imran Khan, in a speech on Thursday, expressed his gratitude for the people’s support and said that the elections have given him a chance to fulfill his dream for Pakistan.

“I started this struggle 22 years ago and thankfully today I have been given a chance to fulfill what I dreamt for the country,” said Khan.

“We will run Pakistan like it’s never been run before.”

“We are going to uplift Pakistan’s poor and help our country’s laborers. Corruption has been eating Pakistan as a kind of cancer. We will set an example that the law will be the same for everybody.”

Khan tells India: “Take one step towards us, we will take two steps towards you. We need to have a dialogue to settle our issues.”

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate-for-PM-leader Shahbaz Sharif has met his brother, Nawaz Sharif, former party leader and a three-time prime minister in jail.

His meeting at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail lasted for more than 30 minutes, local media Dawn News reported.

The first set of those official results by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) have started pouring in, based on a 100 percent vote count.

Supporters of PTI of Imran Khan started early celebrations in different cities of Pakistan on Wednesday night, with the centrist party leading in the projected, preliminary tally announced on local television channels.

A top Pakistani election official said there was “no conspiracy” in the delay in announcing official results for the 2018 election, but instead, technical issues were to be blamed for.

“There’s no conspiracy, nor any pressure in delay of the results,” Babar Yaqoob, secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, told reporters on Thursday. “The delay is being caused because the result transmission system has collapsed.”

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