No party emerged as a clear winner in Pakistan’s hotly-contested but disputed elections, projections suggested on Friday, as results continued to trickle in more than 24 hours after the voting closed. The government and the election panel blamed the unusual delay on internet outages, but doubts about the process were growing and vote-rigging allegations were getting louder. The parties of two former premiers, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, claimed they were ahead, but with just over half the count completed there was still no clear winner. Loyalists of Khan’s party held a thin lead for the natio…