Supporters of Pakistan People's Party travel on vehicles and flashing victory signs during an election campaign rally, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, February 5, 2024. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Armed police stands guard as supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) attend an election campaign ahead of the general elections in Karachi, Pakistan, 05 February 2024. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that general elections for the parliament and four provincial assemblies are scheduled to take place on 08 February 2024. The National Assembly comprises of 266 general and 70 reserved seats. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party listen to Sharif's speech during an election campaign rally in Khudian Khas near Kasur, Pakistan, Tuesday, February 6, 2024. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Pakistan election commission workers prepare election materials at a distribution center in Karachi on February 6, 2024, ahead of Pakistan's national elections. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)





Security officials examine the scene of a bomb blast in Khanozai, Pashin, a district of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, Wednesday, February 7, 2024. A pair of bombings at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan killed some people and wounded more, officials said Wednesday, the day before parliamentary elections are to be held. (Photo by Shah Hussain/AP Photo)





A bomb blast victim (2L) is helped to walk into a hospital in Quetta on February 7, 2024. At least 22 people were killed Wednesday in two separate bomb blasts outside poll candidate offices in southwestern Pakistan, officials said, on the eve of an election marred by violence and allegations of poll-rigging (Photo by AFP Photo)





A shopkeeper sits inside a shop as a mask of former Prime Minister Imran Khan is displayed alongside other masks a day ahead of the general election in Lahore, Pakistan, on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





People hold black flags as they boycott voting during the general election as part of a protest against authorities for not fulfilling their demands, at Landi Kotal in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Hindu women travel in a tuk-tuk with a child after casting their votes during a general election, in Tando Allahyar, Sindh, Pakistan on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Yasir Rajput/Reuters)





A woman arrives to cast her vote at a polling station as police officers stand guard during the general election, in Peshawar, Pakistan on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Burqa-clad women leave a polling station after casting their vote as a police officer stands guard during general election, in Peshawar, Pakistan on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A polling officer marks the thumb of a voter with indelible ink at a polling station, during general elections in Karachi, Pakistan, 08 February 2024. Pakistani voters headed to heavily guarded polling stations on 08 February, to elect a new government for a five-year term amid increased security threats. According to the election body, the polling started at 8 a.m. local time and will continue until 5 p.m. The counting of millions of votes cast will start soon after polling time is over. There are more than 128 million registered voters, 59.3 million (46 percent) women and 69.2 million or 54 percent men. More than 20 million new voters have been registered for the 2024 elections. There are nearly 18,000 candidates out of whom 5,112 including 4797 males, 313 women, and two transgender contestants, running for 266 contestable parliamentary seats. (Photo by Rehan Khan/EPA/EFE)





A voter registers to vote at a polling station in a school during a general election, in Islamabad, Pakistan on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson/Reuters)





Members of polling staff count the votes after. the polls closed for parliamentary elections, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, February 8, 2024. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Police officers stand guard at the main entrance of the sports complex, where the regional office of the election commission is located to compile the country's parliamentary elections, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, February 9, 2024. The results of Pakistan's elections were delayed a day after the vote that was marred by sporadic violence, a mobile phone service shutdown and the sidelining of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





People line up to cast their ballot at a polling station, during general elections in Kaghan Valley, Pakistan, 08 February 2024. Pakistani voters headed to heavily guarded polling stations on 08 February, to elect a new government for a five-year term amid increased security threats. According to the election body, the polling started at 8 a.m. local time and will continue until 5 p.m. The counting of millions of votes cast will start soon after polling time is over. There are more than 128 million registered voters, 59.3 million (46 percent) women and 69.2 million or 54 percent men. More than 20 million new voters have been registered for the 2024 elections. There are nearly 18,000 candidates out of whom 5,112 including 4797 males, 313 women, and two transgender contestants, running for 266 contestable parliamentary seats. (Photo by Amirudin Mughal/EPA/EFE)





Supporters of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of Pakistan People's Party dance to celebrate their party victory in initial results of the country's parliamentary election, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, February 9, 2024. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Supporters of Pakistan's Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party 'Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf' chant slogans during a protest against alleged vote-rigging in some constituencies in the parliamentary elections, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, February 11, 2024. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Qari Zahir Shah, center right on vehicle, a winning candidate from Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party 'Pakistan Muslim League-N, leads rally with his supporters to celebrate his victory in the parliamentary elections, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, February 11, 2024. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Police gather along a road while supporters of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party block Peshawar to Islambad highway as they protest against the alleged skewing in Pakistan's national election results, in Peshawar on February 12, 2024. Police fired tear gas to disperse supporters of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on February 11 after his party urged protests outside election offices where they said rigging had taken place in last week's national vote. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)