Following up on April 3's Pakistan: "Imran Khan takes on America"
From United Press International (also on blogroll at right):
April 9 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from power after losing a unanimous no-confidence vote in Parliament early Sunday.
Opposition parties introduced the motion against Khan after midnight -- he lost the vote 174-0. Parliament will convene on Monday to appoint a new interim leader to serve until the next election in October 2023, BBC reported.
Khan will likely be replaced by Pakistan opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, the younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Al Jazeera reported.
The ouster marked the first time a no-confidence motion against a prime minister of Pakistan has ever proved successful. Khan had previously blocked another no-confidence vote on April 3 by dissolving Parliament, but the country's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the move was unconstitutional....
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Shakin' it up in old Karachi.
