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Pakistan National Assembly: Imran Khan loses no confidence motion

Pakistan National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser on Saturday adjourned the session till later in the afternoon

Sunday April 10, 2022 11:04 AM, ummid.com with inputs from Agencies

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Islamabad: Imran Khan has been ousted as the Pakistan Prime Minister after losing the opposition's no-trust motion on Sunday, with 174 members in the 342-strong National Assembly (NA) voting in favour of the resolution.

Khan has now become the first Prime Minister in the history of Pakistan to be ousted through a no-confidence vote. Before him, Shaukat Aziz in 2006, and Benazir Bhutto in 1989, survived the moves against them.

The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) Ayaz Sadiq, who is in charge of the NA after Asad Qaiser resigned as Speaker saying that he could not participate in a "foreign conspiracy" to oust the Prime Minister, announced the result early Sunday morning.

Before adjourning the session, which began at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday morning, Sadiq said the nomination papers for the new Prime Minister must be submitted by 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon and scrutiny would be done by 3 p.m., reports Dawn news.

He then summoned an NA session on Monday at 11 a.m., adding that a new Prime Minister will be elected by then.



Reacting to Khan's ouster, Shehbaz Sharif, who is the joint opposition's candidate for the premier's post, said in a tweet on Sunday that the country and Parliament have been "finally freed from a serious crisis".

"Congratulations to the Pakistani nation on a new dawn," he added.

After Sadiq announced the ouster of Khan, Sharif told the NA that the new government "would not indulge in politics of revenge".

"I don't want to go back to bitterness of the past. We want to forget them and move forward. We will not take revenge or do injustice; we will not send people to jail for no reason, law and justice will take its course," Dawn news quoted the PML-N leader as saying.

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari then took the floor and said "welcome back to purana (old) Pakistan", adding that "democracy is the best revenge".

As voting on the resolution began just a few minutes before midnight, members from Khan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party walked out of the house and did not participate in the balloting process.

Sunday's development comes after an alliance of opposition parties on March 28 presented the no-confidence motion against Khan in the NA.

Later on April 3, the Deputy Speaker of the NS rejected the no-confidence motion over the alleged involvement of foreign hands in the conspiracy to topple the Pakistani government.

Four days later, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday declared the Deputy Speaker's action as a violation of the constitution of the country.

The apex court ordered the NA to summon a session of the house on Saturday and conduct voting on the no-confidence motion.

According to the procedure and rules, the house will send the result of the no-confidence motion to the country's President for approval and permission to start the process to elect a new Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, Khan, who was elected Prime Minister in 2018 and had promised to fight corruption and fix the economy, has said he would not recognise an opposition government, claiming, without evidence, that there was a US-led conspiracy to remove him because of his refusal to stand with Washington on issues against Russia and China, the BBC reported.

He has repeatedly said that Pakistan's opposition parties are working with foreign powers.

The US has said there was "no truth" in these allegations, and Khan has never provided any evidence.

Addressing the media on Sunday, PTI senator Faisal Javed Khan said Khan walked out of his prime ministerial residence "gracefully and he didn't bow down".

The Senator added that the former premier had "lifted the entire nation".

12:05 PM National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar and Dy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri have resigned from their posts. Ayaz Sadique, Panel Chairman, has started the process for voting on no confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan.

08:30 PM Pakistan National Assembly Session that began today morning following the Supreme Court order took break till 09:30 PM for Isha prayers.

In another development, Prime Minister Imran Khan has called an emergency cabinet meeting at 09:00 PM. It is hence unlikely that the session will resume right at 09:30 PM.

Opposition leaders have called it a delaying tactic and accused the PTI government of contempt of the Supreme Court.

The Opposition leaders were earlier seen shouting slogans “voting, voting” as PTI MNA and ministers took turn one after another to address the house.

In another development in the matter, the government has filed a review petition asking the Supreme Court to revisit its order pronounced Thursday.

08:15 PM Opposition party leaders are now shouting 'voting' 'voting' as Ministers and PTI leaders are speaking one after another in the National Assembly the session of which began Saturday morning.

Right now Hammad Azhar is speaking in house amidst heavy slogan shouting by the opposition leaders. “Bahut speeches un li. Ab voting”, they said.

05:30 PM The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday filed a review petition challenging the Supreme Court's (SC) recent decision to set aside the National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri's ruling to dismiss the no-trust resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The petition requested the SC to "kindly review, recall and set aside the impugned order dated April 7 ... which is based on errors floating on the surface," as well as suspend the operation of the impugned order.

01:45 PM Pakistan National Assembly (NA) session that was adjourned till 12:30 pm has resumed and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is addressing the house.

01:10 PM Pakistan National Assembly (NA) session that was adjourned till 12:30 pm after ruckus by opposition members could not be resumed at the scheduled time.

Right now members have gone to Zuhr prayers and the session is expected to resume at 01:20 pm Pakistan time.

12:00 PM Pakistan National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser on Saturday adjourned the session till later in the afternoon after Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's response to opposition PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif's demand for the vote on the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The Supreme Court in a landmark judgement on Thursday declared the ruling of NA Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri unconstitutional and directed that the voting should be held on the motion according to the agenda issued on April 3, reports The News International.

When the session started on Saturday morning, Qaiser said he would like the House to debate on the "foreign conspiracy", triggering an angry response from the Opposition members.

At this, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif stood up and reminded the chair that he is duty-bound to follow the orders of the Supreme Court.

Addressing the crucial session of the NA, Qureshi said that his leader (Khan) is "disappointed" but will respect the verdict of the Supreme Court.

Reacting to the speech of Shehbaz Sharif, the Foreign Minister said that tabling a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister is their constitutional right, adding that it is his duty to defend the premier.

"We intend to defend the no-confidence motion in a constitutional democratic manner," said Qureshi.

 

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