Imran Khan moves apex court for probe into polls

Imran Khan

Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court to form a judicial commission comprising serving judges to probe the authenticity of last month's elections marred by allegations of rigging.

Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party refused to accept the outcome, alleging that the results were manipulated. Senior lawyer Hamid Khan, who is also a leader of PTI, filed the petition, also asking for "all the acts of forming the government at the federal and Punjab levels be suspended till the result of the probe.

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