Imran Khan loses midnight no-confidence vote, removed as PM of Pakistan: 10 points

The United Opposition – a rainbow of socialist, liberal and fundamentally religious parties – garnered the support of 174 members in the 342-member assembly, more than the number needed to remove the prime minister from 172. The assembly will meet at 2 pm on Sunday for the election of the new prime minister.

Members of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party staged a walkout from the assembly just before voting began and only the opposition voted in a no-confidence motion. Imran Khan was not present in the assembly during the process and vacated the prime minister’s official residence a few minutes before he lost the vote.

Shahbaz Sharif, This person can replace Imran KhanPraising the courage of the opposition, he said that it is not commonly seen in the politics of Pakistan. “Pakistan is now again on the path of honesty and legitimacy…we are looking forward to a bright future where we will not retaliate and jail any innocent,” he said.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the opposition party PPP, congratulated the people of Pakistan. “Democracy was under attack for the last three years. You are welcome Puranas (Old) Pakistan,” he quipped on Imran Khan’s election pitch.new (new) Pakistan. Democracy is a golden vengeance, he said.

Local news reports showed extraordinary scenes of political turmoil in Islamabad as a no-confidence vote was underway after a dragged, dramatic assembly session. Amid high drama, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly resigned before the court’s deadline for the vote. The Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court were opened in anticipation of a midnight contempt hearing. PM Khan had clearly announced in the cabinet meeting that he would not resign.

A prisoner van had reached the assembly amid speculation that the speaker and deputy speaker could be arrested if the vote was not held by midnight as ordered by the Supreme Court. Security beefed up at airports and alert issued No senior state functionary or government official is asking to leave the country without a No Objection Certificate (NOC).

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had alleged that PM Khan was trying to create a constitutional crisis and sought military intervention in the country’s political affairs by delaying the vote on the no-confidence motion. He also attacked the speaker, accusing him of contempt of court and abrogating the Constitution. Another opposition leader, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), slammed the government in a series of tweets, even demanding the arrest of president and vice-president Imran Khan. .

Separately, the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging its decision to declare unconstitutional the deputy speaker’s decision to dismiss the no-confidence motion against the prime minister. However, the petition is yet to be filed as the court authorities did not process it on receipt as they close early in Ramzan.

Calling on the people of Pakistan to defend the sovereignty of the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan last night asked people to take to the streets and protest peacefully against the “imported government”.

Making a sensational claim of a foreign conspiracy, PM Khan has claimed that foreign powers are trying to topple his government and to accomplish this, Pakistan’s parliamentarians are being traded like sheep. “We found out that American diplomats were meeting our people. Then we came to know about the whole plan,” he said. He said he was not at liberty to publicly release all the details due to national security concerns. The US has categorically denied these allegations, saying that these claims are “not at all true”.