Sharif Declares Victory in Landmark Pakistan Election

Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif has declared victory as results from Saturday's election showed a clear lead for his party, Reuters reported. Eighty-six million people were eligible to vote. "Results are still coming in, but this much is confirmed: we're the single largest party so far," Sharif told Reuters. Despite threats from the Taliban to disrupt the elections and attacks on Saturday that killed at least 17 people, millions turned out to cast a ballot in hopes that the new government will deliver change and ease frustrations with the Taliban. The next government will have to contend with the Taliban militants -- who killed more than 110 people in attacks related to the election since April -- endemic corruption, chronic power cuts and crumbling infrastructure in the nuclear-armed country of 180 million people.

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