Pakistan's largest province to hold snap polls in win for former PM Khan

FILE PHOTO: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad, Pakistan June 4, 2021. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir/File Photo

LAHORE (Reuters) - A snap local election will be held in Pakistan's most populous province, officials said, after the provincial leader, an ally of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggered the poll, putting pressure on the government ahead a planned general election.

Holding local elections in a province with 110 million people, around half Pakistan's population, would be an expensive, logistically complicated exercise for a government dependant on foreign aid and reeling from the impact of last year's devastating floods.