Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Millions of Pakistanis storm streets of Abbottabad to protest after Imran Khan got ousted from power after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership. (Read More Here).
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted from power after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership.
The vote was held past midnight after opposition parties brought a motion against him, following days of drama.
The motion was first brought last week, but the former cricket star blocked it by dissolving parliament.
Sunday’s vote took place after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in favour of opposition parties and said that Mr Khan had acted unconstitutionally.
If voted in by parliament, Mr Sharif – a long-time rival of Mr Khan and brother of former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif – would be able to hold power until October 2023, when the next election is due to be held.
The vote makes Mr Khan the first Pakistani prime minister to be ousted by a no-confidence motion, with opposition parties securing 174 votes in the 342-member house in support of the no-confidence motion.
His supporters are expected to take to the streets on Sunday evening.
Tempers rose in the assembly when Sharif insisted a vote be held immediately — as ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday — but Khan loyalists demanded discussion first on their leader’s claims there had been foreign interference in the process.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi accused the opposition of leading the country down a dangerous path.
“History will expose all those, who set the stage for this move to topple the government,” he said, to chants of “vote, vote” from the opposition.
Khan insists he has been the victim of a “regime change” conspiracy involving the United States.
He said the PML-N and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — two normally feuding dynastic groups who joined forces to oust him — had conspired with Washington to bring the no-confidence vote because of his opposition to US foreign policy, particularly in Muslim nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
He also accused the opposition of buying support in the assembly with “open horse-trading… selling of lawmakers like goats and sheep”.
How long the next government lasts is also a matter of speculation.
The opposition said previously they wanted an early election — which must be called by October next year — but taking power gives them the opportunity to set their own agenda and end a string of probes they said Khan launched vindictively against them.
Local media quoted an election commission official as saying it would take them at least seven months to prepare for a national vote.
Publicly, the military appears to be keeping out of the current fray, but there have been four coups since independence in 1947, and the country has spent more than three decades under army rule.
Video below:,
People brought him to power. And people are rejecting his contrived ouster!
Imran Khan is a force of nature. Nothing can stop him from storming back to official power. The bulging masses on the streets up and down the country are with him. Democracy!#امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور pic.twitter.com/wjVMqEHPUo
— Zartaj Gul Wazir (@zartajgulwazir) April 10, 2022
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