Imran Preparing Pitch For Early Polls

Stumped But Not Willing To Leave The Field Yet, Khan Rallies Public Support & Makes His MPs Quit En Masse

- Omer Farooq Khan

Islamabad: Ousted Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Monday appeared to find his second wind in early signs of the public buying into his narrative of a “foreign conspiracy” behind the no-trust vote that he lost, ostensibly because he always had an “independent approach” to governance.

Criticised often by his opponents for an alleged lack of interest in attending parliamentary proceedings, Imran was among the first Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers to reach the National Assembly ahead of voting to pick the country’s next PM. He arrived to cheers and slogans from the PTI lawmakers already assembled there and proceeded to chair a meeting that set the stage for what was to follow.