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Imran dons white, India sees stripes
Nasir Jaffry and Anita Joshua, TT, Jul 27, 2018, Islamabad/New Delhi: Imran Khan extended a hand of friendship to India as he declared victory on Thursday before the final results and prepared to take over as Prime Minister of Pakistan, but New Delhi appeared to be treading with caution.
Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf has emerged as the single largest party with nearly 50 per cent of the votes counted, but allegations of rigging and military interference - coupled with the possibility of a legal challenge - have kept the pot boiling.
The same factors seemed to weigh on India's mind, too, with a Union minister with hands-on security experience describing Khan as a "military candidate" and underscoring the allegations of rigging.

He stressed the importance of trade to build ties.
India had not responded to his offer till late in the night. Nor had Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently in South Africa, congratulated Khan till Thursday evening.
Before Khan's address, Indian minister of state for power R.K. Singh, a former home secretary, told ANI: "Imran Khan has always been a military candidate. It's not us, but people of Pakistan who are saying so. Observers have said it was rigged. Military was there on the polling booths. You ensured that Nawaz Sharif and his daughter land in jail and don't get to campaign. You ensured disturbances in Bilawal Bhutto's meetings.
"I don't see any change because as far as India is concerned, the important matters like export of terrorism by them are not going to change. Military used to decide this policy and they'll do it now as well."
The Pakistani army, which had deployed 34,000 soldiers to oversee the voting in the 2013 election, this time assigned as many as 370,000 troops.
At one point in his speech, Khan complained about the Indian media. "I'm really disappointed to see how the Indian media treated me during the last few days. It looked as if I am a villain of a Bollywood movie," Khan said. "An impression was created as if the situation would deteriorate if I become Prime Minister."
He referred to his popularity in India because of cricket. "I'm a person who arguably knows the most people in India because of my days in cricket."
Khan said his government's policy would be aimed at improving ties with all neighbours, including Iran and China. "I would also like to improve ties with the US on the basis of sovereign equality."
Several parties in Pakistan have rejected the election results. The computerised counting system crashed, forcing officials to rely on fax machines for receiving results and fuelling suspicion of "result engineering".
"This is something which can be easily challenged in superior courts," Imtiaz Warraich, a senior jurist, told The Telegraph in Islamabad.
(Source & Courtesy: The Telegraph- https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/imran-dons-white-india-sees-stripes-248039?ref=hm-ft-stry-1)
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