Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Jan announced Saturday preparations for a confidence vote against his successor and political rival and current head of government, Shebhaz Sharif, in the culmination of a long-running retaliatory operation following his removal from power last year.
«We are certainly going to put him to the test,» the former prime minister confirmed in comments made Saturday and reported by the ‘Dawn’ newspaper.
His party, the Pakistan Justice Movement (PTI), will specify the details of the maneuver during a meeting to be held this coming Sunday «as well as other plans to put him on the ropes,» said the former prime minister, scourge of the current government, which he accuses of orchestrating a conspiracy to oust him from power.
The loophole he is looking for could be in the doubts that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Party (MQM-P), which has threatened to leave the coalition government and whose votes are crucial to keep Sharif in power, has been showing for some time.
Right now the MQM-P is deliberating whether to finally participate as a coalition partner in this coming Sunday’s local elections in Karachi and Hyderabad. Particularly important is its attendance to the first one, given that it had threatened to leave the Executive after protesting about the electoral regulations in the city, the most populated of the country and one of its economic centers.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
