Pakistan’s leader struggles as opponents who accuse him of mismanagement seek to remove him from office amid public anger over price hikes.
Saiyna Bashir / Reuters fileISLAMABAD — Qareebullah Khan is struggling to make ends meet.
“The opposition parties have joined hands to oust him, large sections of media have turned against him, and the powerful military is no longer backing him the way they supported his rise to power in 2018. The chances of his survival in the office are highly unlikely,” said Raza Ahmad Rumi, a Pakistani policy analyst and the director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College in New York state.
But the situation appears to be different this time. Defections from Khan’s party suggest he is well short of the 172 votes needed to retain a majority, and major parties in his coalition have hinted they may vote against him as well. Khan has also tried to increase his public support by lashing out against the United States and its allies, with his foreign minister claiming without evidence that they had orchestrated the no-confidence vote.
Abdul Samad Yaqoob, a spokesman for his party, defended Khan’s independent foreign policy and said it was delivering results.
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