Elections in Pakistan: Hafiz Saeed’s son loses to the candidate supported by the Imran Khan party

Talha Hafiz Saeed, the son of the architect of the Mumbai attacks, lost his seat in Lahore on Friday when the parliamentary elections in Pakistan were being counted.

In the meanwhile, the party of imprisoned former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan declared victory in the general elections and alleged that the results were being manipulated by delaying them.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party also requested in a statement that Nawaz Sharif, the supreme leader of the PML-N and the clear favorite due to his support from the strong army, accept defeat.

But the PML-N brushed off the proposal, insisting it was winning Thursday’s polls.

Pakistan’s general election on Thursday was tainted by claims of vote-rigging, intermittent violence, and a nationwide mobile phone blackout; the votes are still being tabulated.

Numerous political parties participated in the race, but the primary struggle included candidates from Khan’s PTI, who are running as independents, the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by former prime minister Sharif, and Bilawal Zardari Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

According to data obtained in Form 45s, the main source of election results at the lowest level and which displays the votes cast for each candidate at each polling place, the party claimed to have won more than 150 NA seats out of the 265 seats that were up for grabs in a statement released on X from the PTI official account.

For a party to create the next government, it has to win 133 of the 265 seats up for grabs.