President Alvi will ask Shehbaz Sharif for majority take a look at, claims ousted Pak PM Imran Khan

Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister, Imran Khan, asserted that the nation’s president Arif Alvi will quickly ask the present PM, Shehbaz Sharif, to acquire a vote of confidence.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 15, 2023 12:52 IST

Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has grow to be the primary sitting prime minister within the historical past of Pakistan to be faraway from workplace by way of a no-confidence movement.

By India Today Web Desk: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan made a declare that the nation’s president Arif Alvi will quickly ask present PM Shehbaz Sharif to acquire a vote of confidence.

“Shehbaz Sharif tested us in Punjab, and now it’s his turn to prove whether he enjoys a majority in the National Assembly or not,” Khan made these remarks in a media discuss in Lahore and in addition in an interview on Hum News TV on Saturday night.

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“In the first, Shehbaz will be tested for a trust vote; and later we have other plans for him,” the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf stated, citing variations within the federal coalition because the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) threatened to stop over the difficulty of native physique polls in Karachi and Hyderabad, information company PTI reported.

Notably, President Alvi belongs to Imran Khan’s political celebration Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

Punjab Governor Baligur Rehman of PML-N had sought a vote of confidence from PTI-PMLQ’s Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi which he obtained and despatched recommendation on Thursday to the previous for dissolution of the Punjab Assembly, .

Last yr, after a high-octane midnight drama, Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan was voted out of energy as 174 members of the nation’s National Assembly went towards him in the course of the voting on the no-confidence movement.

Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has grow to be the primary sitting prime minister within the historical past of Pakistan to be faraway from workplace by way of a no-confidence movement.

(With enter from PTI)

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Jan 15, 2023