PTI received the most seats, but fell short of a simple majority. Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and the late Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People's Party came next and look set to form an unwieldy, weak, and rigged coalition with six to seven smaller parties to keep PTI out, as the army desires.
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Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan in the next few weeks and indications suggest that he will also take charge of the PML (N) parliamentary election campaign.
In a significant development last week, chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan approached the country s Supreme Court against the alleged attempts of the current Shehbaz Sharif government in Islamabad to dismantle his party.