New Delhi: Imran Khan, in first comments after losing no-trust vote, tweets “freedom struggle begins again against foreign conspiracy”. Meanwhile, Shehbaz Sharif is being elected as the replacement for Imran Khan.
Taking to twitter the Former Prime Minister of Pakistan tweeted, Pakistan became an independent state in 1947; but the freedom struggle begins again today against a foreign conspiracy of regime change. It is always the people of the country who defend their sovereignty & democracy.
Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, the 70-year-old younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has been nominated as the joint candidate for the prime minister’s election, scheduled on Monday. Soon after the nomination, Mr Sharif thanked opposition leaders for “standing up for the Constitution”.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a crucial trust vote in the National Assembly past midnight on Saturday, becoming the first premier in the country’s history to be removed through a no-confidence motion. Mr Khan, 69, was not present in the lower house at the time of voting. His party lawmakers staged a walkout.
The joint Opposition – a rainbow of socialist, liberal and radically religious parties – secured the support of 174 members in the 342-member National Assembly, more than the needed strength of 172 to oust the prime minister on a day full of drama and multiple adjournments of the lower house.
Imran Khan has become the first Prime Minister of Pakistan to lose a no-trust vote. Today’s vote that pushed out Mr Khan from the top post capped a dramatic week during which he sidestepped an initial no-confidence vote before.
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