Imran's Tehreek-e-Insaf emerges as largest party with 116 seats: official results

The PTI is on the top with 16,857,035 votes, followed by the PML-N with 12,894,225 and the PPP with 6,894,296 votes.

Imran Khan begins preparations to form next govt in Pakistan

Khan has still about three weeks to prepare for government before the mandatory session of the National Assembly is called after elections.

All Parties Conference, which includes outgoing ruling party, PML-N has rejected the results of the Pakistan general elections.

Mahesh Kumar Malani defeated 14 candidates to win the National Assembly Tharparkar-II seat in southern Sindh province.

Talking to visitors in Adiala Jail, incarcerated PML-N chief, expressed reservations over poll results in Faisalabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi.

As counting of votes is underway in Pak, most political parties except PTI alleged there was widespread rigging in elections.

Former Pak PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, party prez Shehbaz Sharif, Jamat-i-Islami Sirajul Haq were among ones who suffered defeat in elections.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said regardless of election result, bilateral ties developing with Pak not be affected.

Jemima, 44, who earlier prayed for his success praised Khan in series of tweets, saying father of her two sons will be next PM of Pakistan.

'We have seen two faces of Imran, one as a hardliner for electorate and other as liberal which we saw in London and Delhi,' Tharoor said.