Pakistan cricket icon-turned-politician Imran Khan is close to being named Prime Minister after a general election that has been marred by long delays in ballot counting and claims of rigging by opponents.
With nearly half the votes counted from Wednesday's election, Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), or Pakistan Movement for Justice, was in a commanding lead in the nuclear-armed, Muslim nation.
But supporters of jailed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the counting process was an assault on democracy in a country that has a history of military rule.
Khan, renowned for his playboy ways in London in the 1980s, turned to politics in 2002 and is now widely expected to take on the biggest job in the country.
Source: Daily Mirror, UK