Setback for Pakistan Army as PTI takes lead and Nawaz Sharif trails amid poll results delay

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New Delhi:In a setback to the Pakistan Army, independent candidates backed byformer Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan are surprisingly leading the results that have been announced so far in the countrys general elections...

Polling day Thursday had witnessed mobile services shutdown across Pakistan due to the deteriorating security situation, while at least nine people were killed in bomb blasts, grenade attacks and shootings across the country...

Over 15 hours after polling concluded at 5 pm local time Thursday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) hasreleasedonly the provisional results of 13 out of 266 seats...

The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the ECP personally directed returning officers (ROs), chief secretaries and provisional election commissioners to declare the results immediately, nearly 10 hours after polling closed,accordingto the ECP spokesperson...

At least nine people were killed, including two children, on polling day due to bomb blasts, grenade attacks and targeted shootings,accordingtoReuters.Five police officers were killed in a bomb blast and targeted firing in Dera Ismail district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while two children were killed outside a polling station in Balochistan...

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