“I love you too […] I can see the light and sparkle in your eyes today,” PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif said in a pre-mature victory speech as the ECP is yet to release all the results of the Feb 8 elections.

“We are all congratulating today because in these elections PML-N has emerged as the largest party in the country,” he claimed.

Nawaz stressed that there was a need for all the political parties to come together and work on pulling Pakistan out of crisis.

He said he has told Shehbaz Sharif to reach out to PPP’s Asif Ali Zardari, JUI-F’s Fazlur Rehman and MQM-P’s Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui for the formation of a coalition government.

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