Soon after losing the no-confidence vote in the National Assembly, ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan reiterated that the country will have to fight against the foreign conspiracy that he says targetted his government. 

Khan, in a tweet, said that Pakistan’s freedon struggle begins today – the day after he lost the no-confidence vote. 

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“Pakistan became an independent state in 1947; but the freedom struggle begins again today against a foreign conspiracy of regime change. It is always the people of the country who defend their sovereignty & democracy,” Imran Khan tweeted on Sunday. 

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader became the the first Pakistani prime minister to be ousted after a no-trust vote. Earlier, two separate no-trust motions failed respectively against former premiers Benazir Bhutto in 1989 and Shaukat Aziz in 2006. The opposition secured 174 votes in the 342-member General Assembly to take down Khan. 

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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the opposition’s face for the post of prime minister. Khan’s party nominated 65-year-old former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi as its candidate for the premier’s post.

“I don’t want to go back to bitterness of the past. We want to forget them and move forward. We will not take revenge or do injustice; we will not send people to jail for no reason, law and justice will take its course,” Sharif, who also served as the chief minister of Punjab province, said after the vote. 

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Imran Khan will preside over a meeting of his party’s core committee on Sunday to announce his party’s next move. 

 “Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan will chair the core committee meeting of the party today insha’Allah.” “Imran Khan will announce the future course of action,”  Senator Faisal Javed Khan said on Twitter. 

Imran Khan has been alleging that Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South Donald Lu and the US Department of State was involved in the ‘foreign conspiracy’ to topple his government.