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After the Pakistan Senate Elections, Imran-Bajwa Regime Faces the High Tide of Opposition
Although the results have fairly been consistent with the parties strengths, the defeat of Imran Khan s party s top leader has strengthened the opposition camp to launch a fierce attack against the government.
File photo of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and chief of army staff General Qamar Bajwa. Photo: ISPR
We at the height are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Fawad Chaudhry on Conflict Zone
Calls for Khan s resignation
Opposition parties on Thursday demanded that Khan step down from premiership after the Senate setback. Khan s party has rejected the calls. Imran Khan and his party have taken a unanimous decision to take a vote of confidence from Parliament to confirm he still has a majority (in lower house), Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told media.
Constitutional experts say the reason behind holding a vote of confidence for the premier is to determine which party members switched allegiances in the Senate elections, as, unlike the upper house election, National Assembly lawmakers cast their votes through an open ballot.
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The Unexpected Wrath of Imran Khan
For all of Khan’s nationalist and populist rhetoric, his legacy as Pakistan’s prime minister has been to lay under China’s heels.
In July 2012, former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan described his vision for a Pakistani foreign policy on Twitter. “We stand for a nationalist foreign policy which envisages friendly relations with all on basis of reciprocity & in the interest of Pak,” he said in a social media post. Khan was chair of the populist party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which he founded in 1996. While his party placed third in general elections in 2013, losing not only to Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) but also to Asif Ali Zardari’s center-left Pakistan Peoples Party, the elections solidified his status as an up-and-coming political star.