Results in Pakistan's election still up in the air, but Imran Khan's party defied the odds

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As the cheers from his supporters engulfed him, Nawaz Sharif stepped up to the podium a day after Pakistan went to the polls in an election that many have called neither free nor fair, with a pseudo-victory speech. 

“Pakistan Muslim League is the largest [party] in the country right now after this election,” he claimed, saying he was ready to lead a coalition government. 

It wasn’t technically wrong, but it was no victory for Sharif, a three-time former prime minister who had returned from self-imposed exile to seek a fourth term, after what analysts say was a backroom deal brokered with Pakistan’s powerful

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