Key Points
Yet the candidates who are part of Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party running as independents put forth a strong showing in the contentious poll..
The independents strong performance points to Khans enduring popularity among the nations 129 million registered voters, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet amid the fastest inflation in Asia..
That PTI-backed independents are leading right now despite all the hurdles their party has faced in the run-up to the election and in campaigning is a huge deal for Pakistan, said Madiha Afzal, a foreign policy fellow at Brookings Institution..
Most of Khans independents are political novices as many senior figures left the party after a crackdown by the military and government..
But any alliance between the Sharif and Bhutto clans would probably anger the millions of Khans young supporters, who hung on to the former cricket stars populist rhetoric and see those parties as representing the old ways of Pakistani politics...
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