In a volte-face, a former senior bureaucrat who alleged that 13 candidates from Pakistan s garrison city of Rawalpindi were forcefully declared winners in the elections, on Thursday withdrew his allegations and said he made the false charges after ex-prime minister Imran Khan s party offered him a lucrative position
Former Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has called Imran Khan a "poster boy of populism", asserting that the jailed ex-prime minister was able to get the country's people to rally around "great injustices", but didn't have any plan to "give them a way out" when in power.