Pakistan elections 2024: party's latest position

The vote count is underway after millions of Pakistanis, out of 128 million eligible voters, voted on Thursday to elect their representatives amid a nationwide internet and mobile phone shutdown, sporadic political violence and a deadly terrorist attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

As many as 17,816 independent and party-affiliated candidates contested 265 National Assembly seats, 296 Punjab Assembly seats, 130 Sindh Assembly seats, 113 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) seats and 51 Balochistan seats, a total of 855.

The elections, the largest ever in the country's history, are critical to the country's uncertain socioeconomic and political future, given the dire economic and security situation, and possibly unprecedented political polarization.

In the run-up to the elections, there was violence with a significant increase in terrorist attacks, especially in Balochistan and KP.

Apart from the dastardly terrorist attack on the police in Dera Ismail Khan (DI) that killed four policemen, the election day witnessed considerable calm and no major violent incident was reported anywhere in the country.

A controversial last-minute action by the government that cast doubt on the transparency, fairness and freedom of the elections was the suspension of mobile and Internet services throughout the country. This move drew strong criticism from Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP) Emir Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman, and independent candidate Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, among others.

The PPP chief was so incensed by this abrupt shutdown of mobile services that he even wrote to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa to take note and request the apex court to implement the Court's 2018 orders. Islamabad High Court (IHC) prohibiting the suspension of these services on election day.

However, voting continued and people gathered in front of 90,675 polling stations to cast their votes, which concluded at 5 p.m.

While the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) promised to announce the election results without delay, the hours-long delays sparked controversy with several parties expressing doubts.

However, the commission has begun publishing provisional results, ending uncertainty among the candidates.

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