Pakistani elections: Imran Khan's party faces criticism from Nawaz Sharif's PML-N for calling for US involvement

Pakistani elections: Imran Khan's party faces criticism from Nawaz Sharif's PML-N for calling for US involvement

The party that will form the center-right administration remains unclear even after more than a week of voting in Pakistan's parliamentary elections.

Of the 265 National Assembly seats, independent candidates won 93, with the majority receiving backing from Khan's PTI.

Rejecting the imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his party for calling for US assistance in the purported "rigging" of the February 8 elections, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said that "it is Pakistan's It is against sovereignty." In addition, Maryam Aurangzeb, the head of the PML-N, criticized Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party for having invited the US when they had threatened to overthrow his government in 2022.

In a special address to Washington on Thursday, Khan asked for assistance from the US and voiced his concerns over his nation's allegedly "rigged" general elections. At a news conference on Friday, Aurangzeb and party head Ataullah Tarar expressed their disapproval of Khan's invitation to the US to meddle in the nation's elections. "Certainly not, we're not enslaved! Pakistan has sovereignty over this. Is opposed," the website of The Express Tribune said.

"According to you, the United States had conspired and had deposed your government," the senior PML-N leader reportedly told PTI in an attempt to remind it of this while criticizing the party for asking for US assistance against suspected election cheating on February 8. PTI had claimed that the no-confidence motion was an American plot to overthrow its government. But now it wants Washington to comment on the elections in Pakistan.

After asserting at a public rally in March 2022 that the US sought to overthrow his government, Khan, 71, waved a supposedly classified diplomatic communication. Shortly after, his political career took a nosedive, landing him in prison. They were often even prohibited from running for office. Aurangzeb also said that PTI aims to disperse chaos across the nation. Aurangzeb also requested that Khan's party take their case against him to court. "If you have any objections, take them to the Election Commission," he advised if you are elected. Proceed to the Supreme Court and the High Court after that; we did as well."

The party that will form the center-right administration remains unclear even after more than a week of voting in Pakistan's parliamentary elections. Of the 265 National Assembly seats, independent candidates won 93, with the majority receiving backing from Khan's PTI. The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), led by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, are the two primary competitors of PTI and are not a part of the post-election coalition that was declared this week.

Curfew was enforced in the Pakistani capital on Saturday as demonstrations over the alleged manipulation of the stolen mandate were being organized nationally by Khan's party.