Ex-Pak PM Imran wins by-election

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan won another national assembly seat in a weekend by-election, officials said yesterday, as he leads a so-called "long march" of thousands of supporters to Islamabad.

Khan has been demanding an early general election since being kicked out of office in April by a no-confidence vote, heaping pressure on the government.

His latest win in the northwest of the country was confirmed by the Electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP). "We didn't even run an election campaign for Imran Khan there, but he won with a big margin," Fawad Chaudhry, a senior Khan aide, told private TV channel HUM News.

The ECP ruled this month that Khan had failed to properly declare the value of gifts he received from foreign leaders while in office.