Prime Minister Khan seeks elections in Pakistan after avoiding ouster move, uncertainty builds
The deputy speaker of parliament, a member of Khan's party, blocked an opposition no-confidence motion that Khan had widely been expected to lose.
Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, the front-runner to replace Khan if he were removed, called the parliamentary block "nothing short of high treason". "Army has nothing to do with the political process," Major General Babar Iftikhar, the head of the military's public relations wing, told Reuters in response to a question about the institution's involvement in Sunday's developments.The chief justice "has taken notice of current situation. Further details will be shared soon," a statement from his office said.
Deputy Attorney General Raja Khalid, a top prosecutor, resigned, calling the government's parliamentary move unconstitutional. "What has happened can only be expected in the rule of a dictator," he told local media. Khan lost his majority in parliament after allies quit his coalition government and he suffered a spate of defections within his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
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