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Pakistan Election Result 2024: A day after the general elections were marred by internet outage and violence, the counting of votes in Pakistan to elect the new government is currently underway. The counting of votes began after the voting concluded and results from individual polling stations began surfacing after the statutory one-hour restriction ended. 

However, Pakistan’s vote count following the elections was delayed on Friday with results from only a few national parliament seats announced more than 12 hours after the polls closed and the government suspended mobile phone and internet services. 

Pakistan Election Result 2024: Here Are The Top Updates

- On the delay in results, Zafar Iqbal, special secretary at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), said that it was due to the ‘internet issue’.  The government said that it suspended the mobile phone services as a security measure and they were being partially restored. 

- Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed independents were leading in several constituencies across the country, posing a serious challenge to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N in its stronghold Punjab.

- As the counting of votes was underway, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan declared victory, claiming that the people expressed their determination to elect his party by voting in big numbers.

- Taking to X, formerly Twitter, the jailed Pakistani leader wrote, "Despite every possible method employed to undermine the will of the people, our people have spoken via #MassiveTurnout for a vote today. As we have repeatedly stated, "no force can defeat an idea whose time has come." It is now critical to guard the vote by getting Form 45.” 

- Meanwhile, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday morning announced results for eight of the 265 contested parliament seats on its official website. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) won as many as four seats, while the Pakistan Peoples Party, led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of deceased Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, won one. Independents won the remaining three seats, as reported by Reuters.