The staff of the Pakistan Election Commission compiles the official results of the parliamentary elections in Islamabad, Thursday, July 26, 2018. (Photo: Anjum Naveed, AP)

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's former cricketer Imran Khan and his party held a dominant position Thursday amid a slow and tedious count of ballots from a historic election held the previous day and which was tainted with allegations of fraud and militant violence

. The Pakistani government was expected later that evening

However, more than a dozen Pakistani television channels, based on official but partial counts, plan – using their own undisclosed methodologies – that Khan gets it. as many as 119 seats in the 270 seats in Parliament that were contested.

The rest of the 342-seat Lower House of Parliament includes seats reserved for women and minorities. The vote for two seats was postponed after one candidate died during the campaign and another was disqualified. [19659099] For more information: The suicide bombing kills 31 while Pakistan holds general elections

Cricket star is a favorite for to become the next Prime Minister of Pakistan

It was not yet clear whether Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would get a simple majority or would have But even before half of the votes were counted, the main rival of Khan Shahbaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League – the party of former imprisoned prime minister Nawaz Sharif – rejected the vote, raising fears of disgruntled. could delay the formation of the next government. Television shows give his party barely 61 seats.

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In a tweet on his official page, Sharif says "our democratic process has been postponed"

Complaints have also emerged of the Independent Human Rights Commission, which issued a statement saying that in some places, women

In other areas, he said that "the staff of the polling stations appeared to be party bias, "without naming the party.In the days leading up to Wednesday's election, human rights activist IA Rehman called the campaign" dirtier "in the troubled journey of his party. country to a sustained democracy.

Analysts fear that discontented losers will create instability for the new government, which will face increasing challenges – including a dilapidated economy, a crushing debt While Elections began Wednesday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, militants sent a suicide bomber into an overcrowded polling station to carry out a deadly attack that killed 31 people

. The election, during which Pakistanis voted for the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament and the four provincial assemblies, scored only the second time in the 71 years of the elections. Pakistan's history that a civilian government ceded power to another

Yet, during the election campaign, manipulation by the military sparked directly or indirectly ruled Pakistan for most of its existence. The army had deployed 350,000 soldiers in the 85,000 polling stations.

In a tweet about his official account, Pakistani military spokesman General Asif Ghafoor called the charges of "malicious propaganda" interference. The staff of the flower polling station and elderly women kissing soldiers.

Baluchistan also experienced the worst violence during this month, when a terrorist shot dead at a political rally, killing 149 people, including candidate Siraj Raisani. 400 others were injured. ISIS has claimed responsibility for this attack. Baluchistan has been attacked relentlessly by secessionists in the province and Sunni militants who have killed hundreds of Shiites there.

Khan's supporters spent the whole night celebrating their activities outside the country. Most of the party-goers were young men, dancing to the sound of drumming drums draped in black and green flags of Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Khan, a cricket legend of almost mythical proportions, seduced the young promises of a new Pakistan. According to the United Nations, 65% of the population of Pakistan is 30 years old.

On Wednesday, video footage of a smiling Khan marking his ballot posed problems with the Electoral Commission. His spokesman Nadeem Qasim said that Khan had violated the constitutional provisions on "the secrecy of the vote" and that his vote could be disqualified.

Moeed Yusuf, associate vice president of the Asia Center of the US Institute of Peace the main challenge for the next government will be the economic crisis.

"The new government is going to be in an unenviable position, and especially Imran Khan, because he is not the favorite prime minister of the two main traditional bosses of Pakistan, China He openly criticized the war led by the United States in neighboring Afghanistan as well as massive investments from China to Pakistan, which has accumulated multi-million dollar debts to Beijing

David Markey, of Paul H. School Nitze of Johns Hopkins University, said that he expected that a government led by Khan "is trying to renegotiate the terms with Beijing, using its populism as a rallying point But without ever aiming to sever ties in a way that would upset the army, which historically has close ties to China.

Khan is also likely to encounter anxiety in neighboring Afghanistan, where he was v ocal in its opposition to the invasion led by the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States.

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Munir Khan, Associate Press Writer, Islamabad; Abdul Sattar in Quetta, Pakistan; Zaheer Babar in Lahore; Adil Jawad in Karachi, Pakistan, and Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

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