On Wednesday, the opposition party in Pakistan called on Prime Minister Imran Khan to resign after the failure of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) nominee Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in elections for Senate.
Hours after the results of the elections on the Senate seats, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari asked Imran Khan, “If he (the prime minister) has honour then he should himself resign (from the office). Imran Khan should submit his resignation today as the demand for his resignation is no more only the opposition’s demand but it has now become a demand of the government members as well.”
PML-N’s secretary general Ahsan Iqbal said “Imran Khan was a selected prime minister and now he has become a rejected prime minister”.
“The nation is expecting that he (PM) will resign from the office,” he said, adding that a government whose ministers did not even know how to vote in Senate elections had no right to rule the country.
Mr Bhutto-Zardari reiterated at a press conference said that the defeat of the prime minister from the National Assembly was a “historic win” for the PDM. He said the PDM leadership challenged the government first in the by-elections and then in the Senate and defeated it.
