{"id":61777,"date":"2024-02-09T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/09\/pakistan-election-2024-results-delays"},"modified":"2024-02-10T06:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:24:25","slug":"pakistan-election-officials-warned-to-release-results-swiftly-amid-unusual-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61777","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan allies claim shock victory in Pakistan election despite crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates backed by Khan\u2019s PTI secure most seats but rival Nawaz Sharif seeks to form coalition<\/p>\n<p>Politicians allied with the former prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s party have defied a military-led crackdown and alleged widespread rigging to win the most seats in Pakistan\u2019s election, but opponent Nawaz Sharif claimed victory and said he would form a coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates backed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party run by Khan who is now serving sentences of more than a decade in jail, claimed a stunning victory after Thursday\u2019s polls, defying all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/pakistan-election-nawaz-sharif\">expectations<\/a> that Sharif, a three-time former prime minister, and his Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) would win an easy majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/09\/pakistan-election-2024-results-delays\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates backed by Khan\u2019s PTI secure most seats but rival Nawaz Sharif seeks to form coalitionPoliticians allied with the former prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s party have defied a military-led crackdown and alleged widespread rigging to win the most sea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,813,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-nawaz-sharif","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61795,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61777\/revisions\/61795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}