{"id":3223,"date":"2023-01-18T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:50:24","slug":"former-pm-khan-urges-early-elections-in-pakistan-by-dissolving-second-provincial-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/politics\/former-pm-khan-urges-early-elections-in-pakistan-by-dissolving-second-provincial-government\/2023\/01\/18\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Khan urges early elections in Pakistan by dissolving second provincial government"},"content":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR,<\/span> Pakistan<\/span> (Reuters) Jan,18<\/span>\u00a0–<\/span> The<\/span> opposition<\/span> party<\/span> led<\/span> by<\/span> former<\/span> Prime<\/span> Minister<\/span> Imran<\/span> Khan<\/span> dissolved<\/span> the<\/span> Khyber<\/span> Pakhtunkhwa<\/span> provincial<\/span> government<\/span> on<\/span> Wednesday<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> bid<\/span> to<\/span> force<\/span> Pakistan<\/span> to<\/span> hold<\/span> early<\/span> parliamentary<\/span> elections.<\/span> state.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Under<\/span> the<\/span> regulations,<\/span> new<\/span> elections<\/span> of<\/span> two<\/span> provincial<\/span> councils<\/span> were<\/span> to<\/span> be<\/span> held<\/span> within<\/span> his<\/span> 90<\/span> days,<\/span> and<\/span> Khan’s<\/span> Tehreek-e-Insaf<\/span> (PTI)<\/span> of<\/span> Pakistan<\/span> announced<\/span> that<\/span> the<\/span> central<\/span> government<\/span> would<\/span> hold<\/span> provincial<\/span> elections.<\/span> are<\/span> betting<\/span> that<\/span> they<\/span> cannot<\/span> afford<\/span> to<\/span> hold<\/span> the<\/span> election<\/span> separately<\/span> from<\/span> the<\/span> national<\/span> election.<\/span> otherwise<\/span> until<\/span> October.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Pakistan<\/span> has<\/span> four<\/span> provinces,<\/span> he<\/span> said,<\/span> with<\/span> Khyber<\/span> Pakhtunkhwa<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> northwest<\/span> and<\/span> Punjab<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> east<\/span> accounting<\/span> for<\/span> more<\/span> than<\/span> half<\/span> of<\/span> her<\/span> population<\/span> of<\/span> 220<\/span> million.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Khyber<\/span> Pakhtunkhwa<\/span> governor<\/span> Ghulam<\/span> Ali<\/span> said<\/span> he<\/span> had<\/span> accepted<\/span> the<\/span> PTI<\/span> government’s<\/span> offer<\/span> to<\/span> resign<\/span> a<\/span> day<\/span> earlier,<\/span> telling<\/span> reporters<\/span> he<\/span> had<\/span> “no<\/span> choice.”<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Pakistan<\/span> International<\/span> Cricket<\/span> The<\/span> former<\/span> captain<\/span> of<\/span> his<\/span> team,<\/span> 70-year-old<\/span> Khan,<\/span> has<\/span> been<\/span> calling<\/span> for<\/span> early<\/span> polls<\/span> since<\/span> he<\/span> was<\/span> ousted<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> confidence<\/span> vote<\/span> in<\/span> parliament<\/span> in<\/span> April.<\/span> He<\/span> also<\/span> led<\/span> a<\/span> nationwide<\/span> protest<\/span> campaign<\/span> against<\/span> his<\/span> successor,<\/span> Prime<\/span> Minister<\/span> Shebaz<\/span> Sharif,<\/span> and<\/span> was<\/span> shot<\/span> and<\/span> wounded<\/span> at<\/span> a<\/span> rally<\/span> in<\/span> October.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Sharif’s<\/span> government<\/span> has<\/span> repeatedly<\/span> rejected<\/span> calls<\/span> for<\/span> early<\/span> polls<\/span> as<\/span> it<\/span> tries<\/span> to<\/span> pull<\/span> the<\/span> economy<\/span> out<\/span> of<\/span> a<\/span> deep<\/span> crisis<\/span> exacerbated<\/span> by<\/span> last<\/span> year’s<\/span> devastating<\/span> floods.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) Jan,18\u00a0– The opposition party led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government on Wednesday in a bid to force Pakistan to hold early parliamentary elections. state. Under the regulations, new elections of two provincial councils were to be held within his 90 days, and Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[280,2406],"tags":[823,824,56,100,822],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Imran_Ahmed_Khan_Niazi_-_UNGA_48784380531_cropped.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}