Vote counting is presently underway for the Pakistan common election, following the closure of polls on Thursday.
The election noticed challenges together with a crackdown on jailed ex-prime minister, Imran Khan’s social gathering, sporadic violence, and connectivity points attributable to authorities suspension of cell and web companies.
Polling befell from 8 AM to five PM on Thursday, with a nationwide public vacation declared to facilitate over 120 million voters.
Though the precise polling share is but to be decided, outcomes from particular person polling stations are starting to come back in all through the nation.
Nevertheless, it might take just a few hours earlier than full constituency outcomes can be found.
A complete of 266 Nationwide Meeting seats had been contested out of 336, with polling postponed on at the very least one seat, following a candidate’s demise in a gun assault in Bajaur.
Moreover, there are 60 reserved seats for ladies and 10 for minorities, allotted to profitable events by means of proportional illustration.
To kind the subsequent authorities, a celebration should safe 133 out of the 265 contested seats.
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