{"id":300811,"date":"2018-07-26T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300811"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:07:04","slug":"pakistan-election-results-2018-imran-khans-party-surges-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-election-results-2018-imran-khans-party-surges-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Election Results 2018: Imran Khan&#8217;s Party surges ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300813 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/imran-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-696x592.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-494x420.jpg 494w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With nearly half of the votes counted so far, Former Pakistan cricketer turned politician Imran Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has taken a massive lead in the Country\u2019s general election which held on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, Khan&#8217;s, PTI party is currently\u00a0leading in 113 of 272\u00a0National Assembly constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jailed leader and former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif\u2019s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was ahead in 64 constituencies, whereas the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), led by the son of former two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was leading in 42 constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Pakistan election commission said on Thursday that the result has been delayed due to some technical issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Election Commissioner Muhammad Raza Khan said that the delay in results has created annoyance among people but stated that it was completely a technical fault.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With nearly half of the votes counted so far, Former Pakistan cricketer turned politician Imran Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has taken a massive lead in the Country\u2019s general election which held on Wednesday. According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, Khan&#8217;s, PTI party is currently\u00a0leading in 113 of 272\u00a0National Assembly constituencies. Jailed leader and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":300813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3867,48,3865,3868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300816,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300811\/revisions\/300816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}