Imran Khan's senior aide Gohar Ali Khan says his party will try to form govt

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Gohar Ali Khan said that his party is exploring possibilities to form the government. “PTI has achieved a lead on 170 seats of the National Assembly out of the 265 where elections were held, Khan was quoted as saying by Down News. According to the latest data from the Election Commission of Pakistan, the counting of 253 seats has been completed. Independent candidates, a vast majority of them backed by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, were at the top with 99 seats. “We want to move towards the future, there is no quarrel with anyone, we will form a government according to the constitution and law, respecting the mandate of the people, and carry out the responsibilities,” he wrote on X.

“PTI will form the government in Federation, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they will announce the names of the chief minister very soon, the people of Punjab are going to get a public chief minister, Barrister Gauhar Khan wrote on X.

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Pakistan’s general elections were held on Thursday and the counting began soon after with the hope that the majority of the 265 contested seats in the National Assembly would be available by Friday morning. PTI-backed independence candidates won the most number of seats in the National Assembly as per the result’s announcement by the Election Commission of Pakistan. Also Saturday, the leader of a political party was wounded and two police officers killed in a clash in the country’s northwest. The violence broke out in North Waziristan when Mohsin Dawar and his supporters tried to march toward an army facility while protesting delays in announcing the election result, police official Zahid Khan said.