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    Acrimony and death roil Pakistan vote

    by Shashank Bengali and Aoun Sahi, Los Angeles Times Jul 26, 2018 3 minutes

    ISLAMABAD - A bitter election season in Pakistan concluded in bloodshed and fraud allegations Wednesday after a suicide bombing killed at least 31 people outside a polling station and a top contender rejected preliminary results because of "massive irregularities."

    Early unofficial returns gave a commanding lead to Imran Khan, a nationalist and former cricket star who emerged as the favorite to become prime minister.

    Khan's rival, Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother of jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, accused election workers of expelling his

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