This is John Batchelor. Reviewing the conversations I had last week.

Afrofique, his remarks about what to expect in the Pakistan election seem remarkably

prescient. Right now the reporting the best we have out of London, candidates

loyal to Khan, Imran Khan's Pakistan-Tarek-I-N-Soph Party won the most seats in the parliamentary election but fell short of a

majority. They alleged they won even more seats despite a military back campaign of arrests and a harassment designed

to crush the party before the polls.

Although the county was still not complete by these hours, independent candidates overwhelmingly cons leaders barred from running

under the party symbol, independent candidates had secured 100 of the 265 seats being contested.

That put Kahn's party comfortably ahead of their main rivals, Pakistan's Muslim League N, a veteran leader Nawaz Sharif at 71 seats and the

Pakistan People's Party of Bilwaal Bhutto Zardari, son of assassinated former Prime Minister

Benazir Bhutto at 54. So as Arif looked ahead he saw that we have a hung parliament. However,

allegations are that the Khan Party has a majority and it's being

suppressed. There will be more to say but listen to how A Reef anticipates all this.

I'll talk to him again soon enough next week.

Arif Rafiq of Global News.

Speaking on Tuesday, 48 hours before the election polling started several days

before the right now hung parliament, which is what he predicts.

He no longer really represents anything and that's as a result

of his collusion with the military over the past year or so. So in recent election cycles

his theme has been I was removed from power by the military,

things were good then and now bring me back so I can bring back those good times and put us

back on that track we were once on. But in 2022 the military

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