1 / 10 Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has registered an impressive electoral victory in the crucial Punjab assembly by-polls, dealing a major blow to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif whose son Hamza Shehbaz is all set to lose his post as chief minister.2 / 10Following the poll verdict, Khan demanded fresh general elections in Pakistan. He said now the PML-N is left with only one option and that is “immediately calling for fresh general elections.3 / 10The only way forward from here is to hold fair and free elections under a credible ECP. Any other path will only lead to greater political uncertainty and further economic chaos, Khan, who was ousted as prime minister in April after he lost a confidence vote in Parliament, said.4 / 10According to unofficial results so far, the PTI has won 16 seats while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of Sharif just three. An independent candidate also won. The election for the chief minister will be held on July 22 on the Supreme Court’s order and PTI-PMLQ joint candidate Chaudhary Parvez Elahi is likely to be the new chief minister of the politically crucial province Punjab. 5 / 10PTI chairman Khan in a tweet on Sunday thanked party workers and voters of Punjab for defeating, what he called, not just PML-N candidates, but the entire state machinery, especially harassment by police and a totally biased Election Commission of Pakistan.6 / 10He also thanked the PTI allies PML-Q, Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) and Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).7 / 10PTI party’s senior leader Asad Umar said Khan would announce the party strategy after a meeting of the core committee on Monday.8 / 10The ruling PML-N of the Sharifs has accepted its defeat and even congratulated PTI Chairman Khan for a ‘landslide victory’ in the by-polls. “We respect the mandate of the people. Now we ask the PTI-PMLQ to form the government in Punjab,” the Prime Minister’s spokesperson Malik Ahmad Khan told PTI.9 / 10To a question about whether Prime Minister Shehbaz would dissolve the National Assembly to call early general elections, he said: “The PML-N leadership will decide about it in consultation with its allies.10 / 10PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz also accepted her party’s defeat. “We should accept our defeat with an open heart,” the daughter of PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif said in a tweet. She said that in politics, victory and defeat are a part of the game. “We will see our weaknesses and remove them,” she said.