File photo of leader of the opposition Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, gestures as he speaks to the media at the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad. (Reuters)Imran Khan No-Trust Vote Live Updates: PML-N leader Shehbaz Shariff was elected as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan through a voting in the country’s National Assembly, Dawn newspaper reported. After being elected as PM, Sharif said good has prevailed over evil and vowed to “resign and go home if conspiracy is proved in letter controversy”.
Ahead of the voting, Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) boycotted the procedure. PTI PM candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced the boycott of voting to elect new Pakistan premier. The PTI lawmakers resigned from the Parliament and staged a walkout.
The joint Opposition – a rainbow of socialist, liberal and radically religious parties – named 70-year-old Sharif for the premier’s post while ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was named by Khan’s PTI as its candidate. The PTI has decided to withdraw its lawmakers from the National Assembly and launch a movement against the new upcoming government, which is likely to be headed by Sharif, who has served as the Chief Minister of Punjab three times.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 23, 2022. (AP/PTI)
Speaker of Pakistan National Assembly confuses Shehbaz Sharif with brother Nawaz Sharif.
"I will resign and go home if conspiracy is proved in letter controversy," Sharif said in Parliament after his election as Pakistan PM.
Terming Imran Khan's "foreign conspiracy" claims as "drama", Sharif said Pakistan's National Security Committee would be briefed on controversial letter related to so-called foreign conspiracy.
After being elected as Pakistan PM, Shehbaz Sharif said good has prevailed over evil.
PML-N leader Shehbaz Shariff was elected as the new Pakistan Prime Minister through a voting in Pakistan National Assembly, reported Dawn newspaper. Ahead of the voting, Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) boycotted the procedure. PTI PM candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced the boycott of voting to elect new Pakistan premier. The PTI lawmakers resigned from the Parliament and staged a walkout.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was named by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as its candidate, announced boycott of voting to elect new Pakistan premier. The PTI lawmakers resigned from the Parliament and staged a walkout.
Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf boycotted the election of new Pakistan PM adn walked out of the Parliament.
The Pakistan National Assembly session for election of a new prime minister has commenced with Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri in the chair. Pakistan’s Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif is likely to bag the top post after being nominated for it following the ouster of Imran Khan.
Ousted Pakistan PM Imran Khan says, "We are resigning." Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers will resign from National Assembly and fight for freedom, confirms Imran Khan's aide Fawad Chaudhry.
After Imran Khan lost the trust vote on Saturday midnight, the Pakistan National Assembly is set to elect a new Prime Minister today.
The names of six key aides of ousted prime minister Imran Khan have been put on a stop list by Pakistan's top investigation agency to prevent them from leaving the country, according to a media report on Monday. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) placed the names of the six on the "stop list' on Sunday after Khan's ouster as prime minister by the joint Opposition through a no-confidence vote, Geo News reported, citing sources. Being on the list bars them from travelling abroad without permission. Khan's former principal secretary Azam Khan, ex-special assistant on political communication Shahbaz Gill, ex-adviser on interior and accountability Shahzad Akbar, Director-General Punjab Gohar Nafees, and DG Federal Investigation Agency Punjab Zone Mohammad Rizwan's names have been added to the list, the report said. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's head of social media Arsalan Khalid's name has also been added to the list.
The FIA had introduced a system of "stop list" in 2003 to stop unwanted people from trying to leave the country in the shortest possible time as placing someone's name on the Exit Control List takes a longer time. (PTI)
Deposed Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return from London next month after Eid, a senior PML-N leader has said, amid a whirlwind of political developments that have embroiled the country following Imran Khan's ignominious ouster from power.
Mian Javed Latif said a decision on PML-N supremo and the three-time prime minister Sharif's anticipated return will be discussed with the coalition partners. All decisions would be first brought up with constituent parties of the coalition, The Express Tribune newspaper quoted him as saying.
Eid will be celebrated in the first week of May. Several corruption cases had been launched by the government of ex-prime minister Khan against the 72-year-old supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz since his ouster from the office by the Supreme Court in July 2017 in the Panama Papers case. Sharif in November 2019 left for London after the Lahore High Court granted him a four-week permission allowing him to go abroad for his treatment. (PTI)
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”.
After submitting his nomination to the legislature, Shehbaz Sharif said Imran Khan’s departure was a chance for a new beginning in Pakistan. Shehbaz, the centrist Pakistan Muslim League-N party chief, is widely expected to be named the country’s new prime minister on Monday. “A new dawn has started … This alliance will rebuild Pakistan,” Shehbaz told parliament on Sunday. His first tasks will be to repair relations with the powerful military as well as the United States, and tend to a faltering economy.
Amidst the political turmoil in Pakistan, the country’s former Foreign Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s Vice-President Shah Mahmood Qureshi filed his nomination for the position of Prime Minister, after Imran Khan was ousted from the post through a no-confidence vote for the first time in the country. Qureshi’s nomination was proposed by Amir Dogar and seconded by Maleeka Bokhari. But, who is he? Read More
With Shehbaz Sharif set to be the next Pakistan Prime Minister, New Delhi is watching the developments in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore with “cautious optimism” about a headway in bilateral ties. Top sources said the change in regime may offer a “diplomatic opening”. According to sources in the strategic establishment, the implications may be far-reaching. Read our Explainer to get a detailed understanding of how the bilateral ties may evolve.
Pakistan’s Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif was nominated for the post of prime minister after the ouster of Imran Khan, whose party threatened to withdraw its lawmakers from Parliament if the former Punjab chief minister was allowed to contest the election for the top post on Monday.
The joint Opposition – a rainbow of socialist, liberal and radically religious parties – named 70-year-old Sharif for the premier’s post while ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was named by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as its candidate. The PTI has decided to withdraw its lawmakers from the National Assembly and launch a movement against the new upcoming government, which is likely to be headed by Sharif, who has served as the Chief Minister of Punjab three times.
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Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to withdraw its lawmakers from the National Assembly and launch a movement against the new upcoming government, which is likely to be headed by Shehbaz Sharif, who has served as the Chief Minister of Punjab three times.
“The core committee has recommended to Khan that we should resign from the assemblies. We are starting from the National Assembly. If our objections against Sharif’s nomination papers are not [entertained], we will submit the resignations tomorrow,” PTI leader and former minister Fawad Chaudhry told reporters after the party held a core committee meeting at the residence of Khan. (PTI)
Hamza Shehbaz, son of PML-N president and joint Opposition's prime ministerial candidate Shehbaz Sharif, is scheduled to appear before a special court in a high-profile money laundering case on Monday.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) special court on April 4 summoned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz, his son Hamza and others for indictment in money-laundering and sugar scam on April 11.
Shehbaz's counsel advocate Amjad Pervez told PTI on Sunday that his client would file an exemption from personal appearance in the FIA special court on Monday in the money laundering proceedings.
"Mr Sharif is in Islamabad to contest the prime minister election on Monday. Therefore, the court will be requested to defer the indictment," he said. When asked whether Hamza, a chief ministerial nominee for Punjab chief minister, would be indicted, the lawyer said: "The indictment is made on all suspects." (PTI)