Complications have arisen over the results of the 16th national elections in Pakistan. Uncertainty has arisen in the formation of parliament as no party has secured a majority. Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has already won the majority of seats.
And in this the equation of the country’s policy makers has been turned upside down. In this situation, Malala Yousafzai, the country’s women’s education rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, called on all parties to humbly accept the referendum.
He gave this message on social media calling everyone to give importance to the practice of democratic style in the country.
Pakistan needs to hold ‘free and fair elections’, says Malala Yousafzai At the same time, he urged the elected people to humbly accept the decision of the voters.
In 2014, at the age of 26, Malala became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize.
Malala Yousafzai said there is a need for free and fair elections in Pakistan, including transparency in the counting of votes and respect for the results.
Independent candidates supported by Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won 102 seats in Pakistan’s general elections. The party has reached the brink of the 133 seats required to win a single majority in Pakistan’s elections. For this, PTI needs only 31 more seats.
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), another party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, is in second place with 29 seats less than PTI-backed independent candidates. The party got 73 seats. On the other hand, Bilawal Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders won 54 seats wearing the arrow symbol.