Sharif claims win in Pakistan election; final results expected Sunday Matiullah Achakzai/UPI next ISLAMABAD, May 11 (UPI) -- Nawaz Sharif claimed a third term Saturday as Pakistan's prime minister as his PML-N party took a huge lead over its rivals, provisional results indicated. The Indian Express said trends from 250 of the 272 parliamentary seats up for election showed the PML-N was set to win more than 110 seats, while the Pakistan People Party and Imran Khan's Tehreek-i-Insaf Pakistan were winning about 35 seats each. At home in Lahore, Sharif told supporters to pray that final results, expected to be announced Sunday, would show his party had won an "absolute majority." "I ask you to pray that the results that come in the morning will show that the PML-N can form government without outside support, so that the PML-N doesn't have to seek support from anyone," he said, the Indian Express reported. Millions of Pakistanis voted Saturday in the country's first election to mark a transfer of power from one civilian government to another.