ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A main ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan quit his ruling coalition on Wednesday, March 30, and joined forces with the opposition seeking to oust him, robbing Khan of his majority in parliament as he faces a looming no-confidence vote.
The leader of Khan’s main parliamentary ally the Muttahida Qaumi Movement , Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, announced his party was joining the bloc looking to oust Khan following a written agreement between the two sides. Khan’s ouster would likely mean another round of instability in the nuclear armed south Asian country, in which the military has a long record of intervening in politics and no prime minister has completed a full five-year term in its history.Opposition leaders Shahbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, standing alongside MQM’s Siddiqui, called on Khan to resign before the vote now that he had lost his majority with the defection of the MQM.
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)