Shahbaz Sharif, brother of ousted Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), addresses a press conference after his brother’s sentencing, in Lahore on July 6, 2018. Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison by a corruption court in Islamabad on July 6, lawyers said, dealing a serious blow to his party’s troubled campaign ahead of July 25 elections. / AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI

It is reported that PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday urged that Prime Minister Imran Khan submit his resignation and face the law after an inquiry report by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) proved irregularities in the Daska by-election. According to the report, ‘police and the local administration failed to play their assigned role in a requisite way and were found [to be] tools of their illegitimate masters during the by-election’.

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