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PTI-linked independents take Pakistan election lead as counting nears end

A child walks past a poster showing portrait of jailed Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan at a market in Lahore a day after Pakistan's general election [Aamir Qureshi/AFP]

Candidates linked to jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party are in the lead in Pakistan’s election, ahead of two dynastic parties believed to be favoured by the military, as vote counting enters its final leg.

In an AI-generated “victory speech” posted on the social media platform X on Friday, Khan described the vote as an “unprecedented fightback from the nation” that resulted in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) “landslide victory”, despite what he calls a crackdown on his party.

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