Desk Report
Publish: 10 Apr 2022, 06:18 pm
Imran Khan today chaired a meeting of the PTI's central core executive committee (CEC) in Bani Gala || Photo: Collected
After a humiliating defeat in the successful no-confidence
vote against himself, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan today
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 tomorrow.
"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.
The former PM today chaired a meeting of the PTI's central
core executive committee (CEC) in Bani Gala to discuss the future course of
action as the cricketer-turned-politician appears to continue his brinkmanship
and cling to power at all cost.
Senior PTI leader and former information minister Fawad
Chaudhry has announced that his party would resign from the National Assembly
tomorrow (Monday) if the party's reservations regarding PML-N President Shehbaz
Sharif's nomination as the prime minister are not addressed, Pakistan news
media has reported.
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 on Monday.
A special court of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency
is likely to indict Mr Sharif and his son Hamza in a money laundering case on
the same day, according to reports.
"It has been decided that we can't be involved with
these thieves and dacoits in the assembly. Everyone decided with a unanimous
consensus that we are going to resign en masse from the NA," Pakistan
newspaper Dawn quoted him as saying. "All members will resign."
Calling the opposition a party of "thugs, robbers and
looters", former Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said that he can't sit in
the assembly alongside them. "There will be a meeting at 9 pm tonight and
I will address the public at 9:30 pm," he said.
The joint opposition - a rainbow of socialist, liberal and
radically religious parties - secured the support of 174 members in the
342-member assembly in a dramatic vote last night and ousted PM Khan, who
became the first PM in the country's history to be removed by a no-confidence
vote.
The PTI-led government had filed a review petition in the
Supreme Court challenging its decision to declare the ruling of the deputy
speaker to dismiss the no-confidence resolution against the Prime Minister as
unconstitutional. The petition, however, is yet to be filed since the officers
of the court did not process it on receipt as they close early in Ramazan. It
is likely to be admitted on Monday.
PM Khan had in a late-night address a day before the
no-trust vote called on the people of Pakistan to hit the stress in a
non-violent protest against an "imported government".
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