Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Mawaz Sharif is going ahead and assembling his government now that it appears his center-right “Muslim League” won a clear victory in the weekend’s elections.

Assuming there isn’t a coup or a revolution, this will be the first time that Pakistan has had a peaceful transfer of power from one elected government to another.

The Taliban attempted to ruin the election, and managed to kill 24 people on Election Day, and more than a hundred in the run-up to the balloting.  Islamist radicals targeted secularists and parties affiliated with the military.

Former cricket star Imran Khan’s centriswt PTI party emerges as the main opposition.  The ruling PPP Party of the Bhutto family appears to have been badly beaten.

Accusations of widespread vote irregularities in Karachi, the nation’s largest metropolis, led to the invalidation of results from dozens of polling places, officials said.  Final results are not expected for a few days.