Islamabad, Pakistan (CU)_ Today, Pakistan’s National Assembly will convene to pick a new prime minister. Accordingly, Shehbaz Sharif, President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has presented his nomination papers to the National Assembly for the position of Prime Minister. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf party has also filed nomination papers as a prime ministerial contender.
The nominations were filed the next day after Imran Khan was dismissed as Prime Minister following a defeat in a no-confidence vote in Pakistan’s 342-member national legislature. Imran Khan became Pakistan’s first prime minister to be dismissed following a defeat in a no-confidence vote in the parliament. According to Mr Khan’s first statement after his removal as Prime Minister, despite the country’s independence in 1947, the liberation war against a foreign conspiracy to overthrow the government had resumed.
While addressing the nation on Friday, Mr Khan said, “I tell all of my supporters across Pakistan, on Sunday, after Isha [evening] prayers, you all have to come out of your homes and protest peacefully against this imported government that is trying to come to power”. On multiple occasions, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chairman Imbran Khan has accused a foreign plot that is involved in overthrowing his administration. In Pakistan’s 342-member house, the opposition received 174 votes to the majority’s 172.
In the meantime, the PTI has finalized to withdraw from the National Assembly in a mass. Fawad Chaudhry, senior party leader, declared in a tweet that the PTI has concluded to withdraw from the legislatures, beginning with the National Assembly following today’s election of the Prime Minister.
