Pakistan Elections: Imran Khan emerges winner as per official results

Khan will, however, need to make an alliance to form the government.

According to reports, the Election Commission of Pakistan announced that PTI had won 115 seats.

The National Assembly of Pakistan has 272 seats in total and the halfway mark is 137 for a simple majority.

Khan's rival and jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party PML-N won 62 seats and is all set to be the opposition party.

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led by Bilawal Bhutto, son of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto, won 43 seats.

The cricketing great Imran Khan, who is set to be annointed the next Prime Minister of the South Asian nation, claimed victory in Pakistan on Thursday itself.

Responding to the opposition parties' allegations of rigging Imran has said "these have been the cleanest elections in Pakistan's history" and then added:"Anyone who has issues of rigging; we will help you facilitate and we will open up any constituency that you want for investigation. When we asked for probes, we were not facilitated but now we will do it differently."

"We are ready to investigate any rigging claims with the opposition," he had said.

He has earlier pledged that he will give efforts to stand with downtrodden people after he assumes power.

In the press conference, Khan threw light on a number of issues on which his government will implement.

Prioritising the poor section of the country, Khan had said: "I promise to you my biggest effort today will be to stand with our most downtrodden. Our minorities, our domestic staff; anyone under the poverty line."

Giving stress on health and educational facilities, Khan had said: "I promised you I would make a cancer hospital, you gave me the money and we now have two cancer hospitals in Pakistan today. World class giving 70 percent treatment free.

"I promised you I would make a university in the most remote area of Pakistan, where poor students would get scholarships, I proved to you and I did it."

Khan hadtried to paint an image of his foreign policies with other nations as well.

Envisioning a balanced policy with the US, Khan had said: "As far as America is concerned, we want to work on a policy that is mutually beneficial. Not a One way relationship. There needs to be balance."

Aiming an open-border system with Afghanistan, the PTI leader had said: "We want to work in every possible way to ensure peace in Afghanistan. I would love an open border system like the EU with Afghanistan."

"Afghanistan is that neighbour of ours that has seen the most human misery and damage in the name of wars. The people of Afghanistan need peace, and Pakistan wants peace in Afghanistan."

Khan took a swipe at India over the Kashmir issue which has been a reason for the discord between the two nations.

Regarding the Kashmir issue, Khan had said: "Kashmir remains our biggest contention. The human rights violations over 30 years; and the people of Kashmir have suffered massively."

Khan believes bilateral talks with India might resolve the issue. He had said: "The leadership of Pakistan and India now need to come to the table to resolve this and end the blame games. We are stuck at square one.

"If India comes and takes one step towards us, we will take two steps toward them. Right now it is one sided where India is constantly just blaming us," said Khan whose party PTI is short of an overall majority and might need coalition partners.

Acknowledging foreign policy as a problem for Pakistan, Khan had said he aims to improve relations with China.

"We will strengthen and improve our relations with China. We want to work towards success of CPEC. We also want to send teams to learn poverty alleviation from China. How to lift our most poor who can’t even eat two meals a day."