Lagatar24 Desk
Islamabad, April 10: Pakistan’s National Assembly will gather on Monday to elect a new prime minister after Imran Khan was deposed in a midnight trust vote. On his way out, he is considered to be the only prime minister in the country to lose a no-confidence motion, even though no Pakistan PM has ever completed a full term in 75 years of its history.
The uncommon midnight vote in parliament on Saturday comes weeks after the opposition filed a motion of no confidence on March 8. In the face of rising criticism, the 69-year-old cricket star-turned-politician said a “foreign plot” was at work. In the midst of the scandal, he even named a US diplomat.
Meanwhile, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, who is presently the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, is expected to become the new Prime Minister.
During a joint press conference of the opposition parties on March 30, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced Sharif’s candidacy as the opposition’s pick for Prime Minister. He’ll most likely be elected as the new Prime Minister during the same National Assembly session that saw Imran Khan deposed from office after the country’s Supreme Court overturned the Deputy Speaker of the House’s rejection of the Opposition’s no-confidence motion.
