September 19, 2024

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PM Shehbaz Sharif’s son Hamza wins Pak’s Punjab province in setback to Imran Khan

In a setback to ousted Pakistan premier Imran Khan, Hamza Shehbaz, son of High Minister Shehbaz Sharif, was once declared the winner within the election to the publish of Leader Minister of Punjab province on Friday although his PML-N birthday celebration didn’t have a majority within the Meeting after key by-elections this week.

Hamza Shehbaz controlled to retain the publish of Punjab province Leader Minister via the barest of margins after the Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari rejected 10 the most important votes of his rival candidate Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi’s birthday celebration, PML-Q, on ‘technical grounds’.

Deputy Speaker Mazari who presided over the the most important consultation on Friday that started after a three-hour prolong, rejected 10 votes mentioning Article 63-A of the Charter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q), an best friend of ousted top minister Khan, and declared Hamza victorious.

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Within the 368-member Punjab Meeting, Hamza’s birthday celebration Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) gained 179 votes, whilst Elahi’s birthday celebration garnered 176 votes, however simplest after 10 votes of Elahi’s personal birthday celebration weren’t counted, after birthday celebration head Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain issued a letter.

“I give a ruling to reject 10 votes of PML-Q as its leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has written me a letter pointing out that his birthday celebration lawmakers will have to no longer vote for the PTI-PMLQ candidate. I had spoken to Shujaat via telephone and he showed that it’s his letter,” Mazari stated, including that Hamza had retained the spot of Punjab province Leader Minister via 3 votes.

The PTI-PMLQ lawmakers protested the ruling of the deputy speaker.

Following Mazari’s determination to omit the ten votes of PML-Q individuals – a transfer that allowed Hamza to retain his publish as the manager minister of Punjab – PTI stated that it might manner the Preferrred Courtroom to problem the verdict.

Elahi stated he would problem this determination within the Preferrred Courtroom because the deputy speaker violated the court docket’s order.

Previous, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday celebration chairman Khan had warned that if the state equipment is used to scouse borrow the general public mandate, it is going to lead the rustic to a Sri Lanka-like scenario.

“If the state equipment is used to scouse borrow the general public mandate, the response of the hundreds will lead Pakistan to a Sri Lanka-like scenario? I can no longer be capable of keep watch over other folks in this sort of state of affairs,” Khan stated.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz stated what her birthday celebration did on Friday was once a tit-for-tat reaction to Khan’s birthday celebration.

“PML-N has no longer forgotten the remedy meted out to them. Now the principles of the sport would be the similar for everybody, else PML-N is aware of learn how to play it higher,” Nawaz stated in a tweet.

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