Pakistan parliament ousts Imran Khan in last-minute vote

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after a dramatic week in which he violated the constitution in an attempt to stop the move going ahead.
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On Thursday, he was delivered a blow after Pakistan’s supreme court found he had broken the law by dissolving parliament in an attempt to prevent a no-confidence vote he was expected to lose from going ahead last week.

On the court’s instructions, the vote finally took place on late Saturday night, though not before Khan’s party spent a 14 tumultuous hours trying to delay and block it in the national assembly.
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Khan’s loss leads the way for a new opposition coalition government, with the leader of the opposition, Shahbaz Sharif, the brother of the jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, as interim prime minister. The opposition has stated its intention to hold elections in the next few months, though they are likely to be October at the earliest.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/pakistan-on-brink-of-crisis-as-imran-khan-blocks-no-confidence-vote

[AllaN01Bear]

1. failed dictator attempt.

[Warpy]

2. Good. That sumbitch was bad news

Aarrgh! That wall of text and I couldn't find what the percentage of no confidence votes was.

Maybe someone a little less verbose will have the story tomorrow.

ETA: BBC had it 174-168, so it was pretty close. Still, it's not the Senate, so the majority rules and he's out on his misogynistic, economy wrecking bum.

[JI7]

8. The opposition is also misogynistic and stole money from people

[TomWilm]

3. Pakistan is number 104 out of 167 states on the global Democracy Index ...

... classified not as a free democracy, but as a hybrid regime, when measuring electoral process, government functionality, political participation, political culture and civil liberties. Pakistan’s score on the index has been on a slight decline since 2013, and are among the eight least democratic countries in Asia. Way below other South Asian states, like India and Sri Lanka, which are classified as flawed democracies.

BTW, on the same scale also the US has for the past six years been a flawed democracy, ranked as number 26 and sandwiched in between Chile and Estonia. Slightly lower than last year it has dropped one spot in the ranking, and this is the nation’s lowest score since 2006.

[llashram]

4. wow

a trump clone...

[Crowman2009]

6. Only in this case, it's a dumb cricket player.

Athletes, business folk, celebrities, and generals who are only good at frontline combat; should not be president IMO.

[JI7]

7. But in this case the opposition is corrupt also

The opposition includes Army which lives a life of luxury by stealing people's money and family members of previous leaders that also stole money .

The biggest problem in the country is religion.

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. K&R nt