Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province on Friday (December 23) de-notified Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi with "immediate effect", plunging the region into a constitutional crisis. Governor Baligur Rehman took the step as he said the chief minister did not comply with his order of obtaining a vote of confidence.
The governor belongs Pakistan Muslim Leage (Nawaz) (PML-N) while the chief minister is from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party. The governor took the step of denotifying the chief minister in order to keep him from dissolving the assembly.
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