Pakistan Set To Elect New Prime Minister Today
Security measures ahead of the Prime Minister’s election are set in place
New Delhi:
Pakistan 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 today.
On the other hand, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) has nominated Shah Mahmood Qureshi as their candidate.
The voting on the no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government was held in the country’s National Assembly late on Saturday night where 174 members recorded their votes in favour of the resolution that ousted the Imran Khan.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Muhammad Khan on Sunday claimed that 95 per cent of the Parliament from PTI are against resigning from the assembly.
This statement comes just a few hours after former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhary’s press conference in Islamabad where he had said that his party members will resign from the National Assembly on Monday as the nomination of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shahbaz Sharif has been accepted by the National Assembly (NA) Secretariat, reported Geo TV.
A large number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf supporters held a protest rally in Lahore’s Liberty Chowk against the ouster of former prime minister and party chairman Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition.
The charged PTI supporters, including women and children, showed their solidarity with Khan during the rally 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, Jehlum and Gujrat districts. Islamabad and Karachi also witnessed major gatherings of PTI supporters.
After a humiliating defeat in the successful no-confidence vote against himself, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday reiterated his ‘foreign conspiracy’ claim and said the “freedom struggle begins today”. Meanwhile, Mr Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) has decided to resign from the National Assembly on Monday.
“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,” Mr Khan tweeted.
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