Police fired teargas to disperse supporters of Imran Khan last weekend as protests broke out across Pakistan amid allegations of widespread voterigging targeting the former prime minister’s political party and other nationalist groups in the general election. The results of last Thursday’s election gave a surprise first place to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, despite facing a stringent crackdown by the country’s powerful military establishment.
But with no clear majority winner, Pakistan remained in a state of turmoil as several parties claimed they would form a government, and protests shut down swathes of the country.
An unprecedented wave of popularity won PTI-affiliated candidates more