No-confidence motion against Imran Khan

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A no-confidence motion against Imran Khan of the PTI occurred on 10 April 2022 and led to his removal as the prime minister of Pakistan, as opposition parties joined forces to present the motion, which the majority passed in the National Assembly. The next day, on 11 April, Shehbaz Sharif of the PML(N) was elected prime minister by the assembly. Khan became the first prime minister in Pakistan to lose a vote of no-confidence. The decision to file a no-confidence motion against sitting prime minister Imran Khan was taken at a summit of the opposition parties, united under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance. In the leadup to the no-confidence motion, Khan's PTI also faced defections from some lawmakers within its own ranks, which emboldened the opposition's move to file the motion. On 8 March 2022, representatives of opposition parties filed the motion against Khan in the National Assembly, seeking to remove him from office, while accusing his alleged hybrid regime of poor governance...

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