Supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan staged rallies across the country after his party was sidelined in a vote in the local assembly in Punjab province on Friday, despite an emphatic win in by-elections there earlier in the week.
The vote was held to determine whether the province’s sitting chief minister — Hamza Sharif, the son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif — still enjoyed majority support in the provincial legislature.
Mr Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had hoped to form the new provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, after the party won 15 out of 20 seats that were available in by-elections on July 17.
The result took the PTI’s strength in the 371-seat assembly to 178 which, together with 10 seats from its ally, the Pakistan Muslim League, would give it a majority.
In Friday’s vote, the PTI candidate for chief minister, Pervez Elahi, initially won 186 votes but the provincial assembly’s deputy speaker, Dost Mohammad Mazari, invalidated 10 of those votes over alleged violations of voting regulations.
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