ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan ally won a confidence vote as chief minister in the Punjab Assembly.Chaudhry Parvez Elahi secured 186 votes from lawmakers in the 371-member house.
Speaker Muhammad Sibtain Khan announced the result in a session that lasted more than an hour after midnight.Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s members boycotted the session and plan to legally contest the voting.announced plans to dissolve two of the nation’s four provincial assembliesMr Khan has said he will ask chief minister Elahi to dissolve the assembly as soon as he wins the confidence vote. Mr Elahi has so far resisted Mr Khan’s call to dissolve the assembly.
The Chief Minister of Punjab had earlier refused to seek a confidence vote and was sacked from the office by the province’s Governor Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman for the refusal. The chief minister challenged the decision in the court that asked him to continue in the role until a verdict is reached.
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