Posted on 04/09/2022 4:46:21 PM PDT by EBH
ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted on Sunday when he lost a vote of confidence in parliament, after being deserted by coalition partners who blame him for a crumbling economy and failure to deliver on his campaign promises.
The result of the vote, which was the culmination of a 13-hour session that included repeated delays, was announced just before 0100 (2000 GMT on Saturday) by the presiding speaker of parliament's lower house, Ayaz Sadiq.
Khan, 69 was ousted after 3-1/2 years as leader of the nuclear-armed country of 220 million, where the military has ruled for nearly half its nearly 75-year history.
Parliament will meet on Monday to elect a new prime minister.
Sunday's vote followed multiple adjournments in the chamber, called due to lengthy speeches by members of Khan's party, who said there was a U.S. conspiracy to oust the cricket star-turned-politician.
Opposition parties were able to secure 174 votes in the 342-member house in support of the no-confidence motion, Sadiq said, making it a majority vote.
"Consequently the motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan has been passed," he said to the thumping of desks in the chamber. Khan, who was not present for the vote, had no immediate comment.
Just a few legislators of Khan's ruling party -- Tehreek-i-Insaf, or Pakistan Movement for Justice -- were present for the vote.
The house voted after the country's powerful army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa met Khan, said two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, as criticism mounted over the delay in the parliamentary process.
The front-runner to become Pakistan's next prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said Khan's ouster was a chance for a new beginning.
"A new dawn has started... This alliance will rebuild Pakistan," Sharif, 70, said in parliament.
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Not near enough beheadings in his CT. You gotta be more evil than that!
Khan’s party can’t be right. The CIA and State Department never meddles in other countries internal politics /s
payback for taking Russia’s side.
bringing back Nawaz Sharif’s family via his brother Shehbaz, sounds more in line with Biden Admin:
Wikipedia: Shehbaz Sharif
Money laundering cases
On 28 September 2020, Shehbaz was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau on charges of laundering over Rs7,328 million in a systematic scheme involving close associates and family members. The Bureau had previously frozen 23 different properties belonging to Sharif, his son, and other family members, claiming that these assets were acquired beyond known sources of income. The NAB alleges that the Shehbaz Sharif family used fake transactions to receive foreign funds, with the transactions being made through a company owned by Sharif’s son-in-law, Haroon Yousaf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehbaz_Sharif
I’m getting sick of the DC and Brussels globalists ramming around like they own the fricking planet.
“It is obviously easier to kill someone locally than to have to leave your country and kill Infidels where they live.”
A plane ticket to Mexico’s border is such an inconvenience...
Eric Clapton needs to do a follow up tune...
Imran Khan thanks supporters for protesting against ‘US-backed’ regime in Pakistan
Press Trust of India
The Pioneer
Monday, April 11, 2022
Lahore — Imran Khan thanks supporters for protesting against ‘US-backed’ regime in Pakistan
Imran Khan has thanked his supporters for their participation in rallies held across Pakistan and abroad to protest against his ouster as prime minister and the formation of a “US-backed regime” in Islamabad.
Protest rallies were held in different Pakistani cities after 9 pm on Sunday and continued for several hours on the call of Khan.
“Thank you to all Pakistanis for their amazing outpouring of support & emotions to protest against US-backed regime change abetted by local Mir Jafars to bring into power a coterie of pliable crooks all out on bail. Shows Pakistanis at home & abroad have emphatically rejected this,” Khan tweeted on Sunday.
Earlier on Sunday, ousted prime minister Khan tweeted that “today marked the beginning of a freedom struggle” against what he said was a “foreign conspiracy of regime change” in Pakistan.
In an attempt to galvanise his supporters, he said “it is always the people who protect their own sovereignty and democracy.”
The charged PTI supporters, including women and children, showed their solidarity with Khan during the rally in Lahore that started at 9 pm on Sunday and lasted till 3 am on Monday.
Big gatherings were also reported from other parts of the Punjab province, including Faisalabad, Multan, Gujranwala, Vehari, Jhelum and Gujrat districts. Islamabad and Karachi also witnessed major gatherings of PTI supporters.
Protests were also held abroad, including in Chicago, Dubai, Toronto, and the UK against Khan’s ouster.
PTI’s local leadership was leading the protest. The charged workers and supporters of the party were chanting slogans against the US, which Khan claims to be behind the ouster of his government.
They were also shouting slogans against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif, who is expected to be elected as the new prime minister on Monday; Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chair Asif Ali Zaradri and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman for allegedly plotting against Khan’s government at the behest of the US.
Most placards carried by the protesters read “Imported government not acceptable.”
Former federal minister and PTI senior leader Shireen Mazari said in a tweet: “Such amazing scenes from across Pak and from abroad -— Pakistanis have rejected US instigated regime change. Two of my favourite individual placards! #ImportedGovernmentRejected #RevolutionBlackedOut.”
Despite the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Government’s hectic efforts to avoid voting on the no-confidence motion against Khan, the joint Opposition succeeded in its month-long efforts to oust Khan from the Prime Minister’s office as 174 members of the 342-member National Assembly voted against him after a day of high drama.
Khan, 69, became the first premier in the country’s history to be sent home after losing the trust of the House.
In a live address to the nation last week, Khan discussed a ‘threat letter’ and termed it as part of a foreign conspiracy to remove him as he was not acceptable for following an independent foreign policy. He named the US as the country behind the threat letter against his government.
The US State Department has firmly rejected Khan’s remarks over Washington’s role in an alleged foreign conspiracy to oust him from power.
America also asserted that it did not send any letter to Pakistan on the current political situation in the country as it sought to refute allegations of America’s involvement in the no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan-led government.
Very few are paying any attention to this event. But since the withdrawal out of Afghanistan and the Taliban taking over, this relationship has been rocky. Rocky enough that Republicans introduced a bill to sanction Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism. That bill has been tabled.
But sanctions can still befall Pakistan as, Pakistan has refused to criticise Moscow's actions but it has called for resolving the dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. Bill tabled in US house to declare Pakistan 'state sponsor of terrorism’
Thanks for the links. Any thoughts on what this means to Biden or the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons?
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