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Pakistani folks, media and politicians have fun after Imran Khan wins a Twitter ballot

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On Wednesday, the complete nation of Pakistan went right into a jubilatory temper after Pakistan Prime Minister and former captain Imran Khan emerged victorious in a Twitter ballot performed by International Cricket Council (ICC) to resolve the best participant as captain.
The ICC had carried out a ballot on micro-blogging web site Twitter on Tuesday to resolve who’s the most effective cricketer as a captain. The ICC ballot included three legendary gamers and a Pakistani cricketer. The three legends included within the ballot had been Indian cricket workforce skipper Virat Kohli, South Africa captain AB de Villiers, Australia ladies’s cricket workforce skipper Meg Lanning. Pakistan’s former captain and present Prime Minister Imran Khan was additionally included within the ballot by the ICC.
Even although Indian skipper Virat Kohli was method forward within the polls until the final phases, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who throughout his days performed some cricket, emerged on the prime of the ballot after patriotic Pakistanis jumped in by the hundreds to vote for Imran Khan to save lots of him from one other worldwide humiliation.
Amusingly, following the victory of Pakistan PM Imran Khan in a Twitter ballot, Pakistanis are actually rejoicing over the victory and nationwide celebrations have begun to cheer for his or her beloved PM Imran Khan.
Interestingly, the victory of Imran Khan in a Twitter ballot has now taken a political flip after Imran Khan’s political get together ‘Tehreek-e-Insaf’ took to Twitter to depict as some form of political win for the Prime Minister Khan and claimed that, “Once a leader, always a leader”.

The victory celebrations didn’t cease there. Zartaj Gul Wazir, Minister of State for Climate Change, didn’t miss the chance to have fun PM Imran Khan’s victory within the Twitter ballot. She mentioned Imran Khan was the best cricketer and skipper to emerge from the sub continent.

Several high-profile Pakistanis too descended on Twitter to make merry of Imran Khan ‘majestic’ achievement of profitable a Twitter ballot carried out by the ICC.

Not simply Pakistani institution, even the media in Pakistan cheered up for Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s victory in a Twitter ballot.
Congratulations Prime Minister Imran Khan, nobody can defeat you. Not even Virat Kohli. Pakistan Zindabad ❤️🇵🇰💪#PakistanShocksIndia pic.twitter.com/cBdQIfbJP7— SanamJamali (@Sanamjamali6) January 13, 2021
It is pertinent to notice that Pakistan media had earlier run a marketing campaign to affect the Twitter ballot in order that former Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan, who’s now the Prime Minister of the nation, didn’t lose within the ballot in opposition to Indian cricket workforce captain Virat Kohli. TV channels in Pakistan had been reportedly urging folks to vote for his or her PM.
Indian Muslims, opposition get together members be a part of Pakistani bots to safe win for Imran Khan
Earlier within the day, former Pakistan captain Imran Khan received a Twitter ballot ran by ICC to resolve who was the most effective participant as a captain. After over 5,00,000 votes solid, the ballot went in the direction of a nail-biting end between Virat Kohli and Imran Khan. In the top, with the large backing by the Pakistani state and its media’s nationwide marketing campaign, surprisingly only for a Twitter ballot, former Pakistan captain took a slender chief to emerge victorious within the ICC ballot. 
In the ballot, Virat Kohli had 46.2 per cent of the vote whereas Imran Khan acquired 47.3 % of the full 5,36,346 votes. Meanwhile, AB de Villiers acquired solely seven % of the vote whereas Australian ladies’s workforce captain Meg Lanning sadly acquired just one %.

As Imran Khan trailed within the preliminary phases, the Pakistani institution acquired triggered and resorted to low-cost methods of using large state-sponsored social media teams to affect the ballot. Soon, votes began to pour in favour of former Pakistan captain Imran Khan. Pakistani bots and social media customers, who maybe do not know how voting in actual life appears like, enthusiastically voted on a Twitter ballot like by no means earlier than.
It appeared just like the  Inter-Services Public Relations, the propaganda arm of the Pakistan Armed forces, didn’t need their Prime Minister to humiliatingly lose to Indian but once more and organized for some votes on Twitter to make it possible for he wins the Twitter ballot no less than.
Shockingly, not simply Pakistani Twitter accounts and bots managed by the Inter-Services Public Relations, a number of Indians additionally voted in favour of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan within the Twitter ballot. The ‘Team Baan’, which indulges in mass rigging of Twitter polls with the assistance of bots and sometimes resort to posting abusive rants on social media in opposition to Hindus and BJP supporters, unsurprisingly campaigned on behalf of Imran Khan and voted for Pakistan Prime Minister Khan within the Twitter ballot ran by the ICC.