Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has suggested forming a “coalition” with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), while supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest the alleged rigging of the election. 

Pakistan’s ex-PMs and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan both claim victory in the national election.

Millions of Pakistanis head to the polls for parliamentary elections amid heightened security measures.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi are sentenced to 14 years in jail, the second sentence handed to him in two days just a week before national elections.

On November 29, Islamabad’s High Court overturned a corruption conviction for Sharif, which made him closer to being able to run for elections.

Amid the political crisis in Pakistan, opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif has been installed as the new premier, with the cricketer turned politician, Imran Khan, back on the streets, mobilizing his supporters against what he calls an “imported government”.

Britain is known to be hub of terrorists and corrupt fugitive political leaders who fled from Pakistan. This is London residence of Altaf Hussain, a leader of a Karachi-based ethnic political party. Back home, Hussain was convicted on terrorism and murder charges.