Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has formed the government in Pakistan with Imran Khan as the Prime Minister.
The opposition parties in the assembly wanted to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan
as they felt he was responsible for the economic crisis, high inflation & mismanagement because of which people are suffering.
The opposition parties submitted a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan on 8th March 2022 in their Assembly.
A no-confidence motion was initiated against Imran who deemed untrustworthy.
The motion was proposed and the assemble would vote to remove Khan and elect a new PM.
After so long, on 3rd April when the assembly was to vote for the no-confidence motion, Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri dismissed the motion without a vote.
Following the dismissal of the no-confidence motion, Imran Khan advised President Arif Alvi
to dissolve the assembly and hold a new election within 90 days to elect a Government.
The opposition leaders did not accept this as the election would be too expensive.
They demanded to vote on the no-confidence motion.
Since the argument continued, the opposition challenged this in Pakistan’s Supreme Court on 7th April 2022.
After seeing appeals from both the sides, the Supreme Court of Pakistan said the government was wrong,
and ordered the no-confidence motion to be held.
The no-confidence vote was held on 10th April 2022.
Out of the 343 member assembly, 174 voted to remove Imran Khan as the PM.
This brought an end to Khan's tenure as Prime Minister. Shocking!
After Khan's ouster, his party has suggested the name of Shah Mahmood Qureshi as their PM candidate.
Pakistan Muslim League-N is the opposition party and its leader is Shehbaz Sharif.
He is the brother of former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif. Now a vote will be held.
Surprisingly, since Pakistan's independence in 1947, no prime minister has completed a full five-year tenure.
Some had their tenure cut short due to corruption allegations,
some were overthrown by a military coup, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, etc.
Now Imran Khan is Pakistan's first PM to be removed through a no-trust vote. No PM has completed 5yrs tenure.