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Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan feels “disgusted” after his main rival Nawaz Sharif took the lead as results from the national election trickled in on Friday, a top aide tells dpa. Khan’s party had been ahead by a significant margin in early results overnight. Then the results stopped coming in, with the delay blamed on telecommunication outages. After a gap of several hours, Sharif’s party and allies then had a narrow edge over the candidates backed by Khan when results began to be announced again on Friday morning. Khan’s close aide Raoof Hasan told dpa the party would ann…