Officials announced on Friday that the former cricket star Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had won 114 of the 269 seats being contested in the National Assembly.
Hours after the 65-year-old’s victory was confirmed, he spoke to the nation saying his preferred form of government is “the Islamic State as established by the Prophet Mohammad in Medina”.
“Today in front of you, in front of the people of Pakistan, I pledge I will run Pakistan in such a way as it has never before been run,” he said.
Christian charity Open Doors’ World Watch List places Pakistan as the fifth worst place in the world for Christian persecution.
Before the election, a Pakistani Christian leader told Open Doors: “Many Christians fear Imran Khan as the country’s leader as he has said he wants to return to jirga, a traditional assembly of leaders that make decisions by consensus and according to the teachings of Pashtunwali – a series of non-written ethical codes which predate modern laws and which prove a dangerous mix in combination with Sharia, the strict Islamic law.”
Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, speaks to media after casting his vote at a polling station for the parliamentary elections in Islamabad, Pakistan,
The charity added that the newly elected leader has spoken…
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