INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan&s lower house of parliament on Sunday (April 9) voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from office, following a
nearly 14-hour standoff between the opposition and Khan&s ruling party that started on Saturday morning (April 8).Opposition parties were
able to secure 174 votes in the 342-member house in support of the no-confidence motion, the house speaker said, making it a majority vote
There were just a few legislators of Khan&s ruling party present for the process.The vote means Khan will no longer hold office and the
country&s lower house will now elect a new prime minister and government.The 69-year-old, who steered Pakistan to cricket World Cup victory
in 1992, came to power in 2018 after rallying the country behind his vision of a corruption-free, prosperous nation respected on the world
stage.But the firebrand nationalist&s fame and charisma may not be enough to keep him in power
He could not deliver on all of his lofty promises and failed to avert an economic decline partly sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.The
opposition has said it wants early elections, but only after delivering a political defeat to Khan and passing legislation it says is
required to ensure the next polls are free and fair
Pakistan&s election commission said on Thursday the earliest it could hold the ballot was October.The post Pakistan PM Khan ousted in vote
of no-confidence first appeared on Ariana News.
