Khan's Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Friday approached the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of the elections alleging widespread rigging.
On February 17, former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chattha alleged that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice were involved in “poll-rigging” in the February 8 elections
While politicians backed by the military seem set to come to power in Pakistan, the verdict has thrown up a massive challenge for Army Chief Gen Asim Munir. For India, both these developments have implications.
A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan had alleged widespread rigging against the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the recently-held general elections.