VSike any top athlete, Imran Khan fought until the end. He tried everything to prevent the motion of censure presented to Parliament from being put to the vote. But abandoned by his allies and some of the deputies of his party, the PTI, the Prime Minister bowed. The motion was adopted by 174 votes out of 342 overnight from Saturday to Sunday. This is a first in the history of Pakistan. Never had a head of government lost the confidence of deputies.
The blow is hard for Imran Khan. The former Pakistani cricket star launched his party in 1996 to rid the country of the two families that dominated political life, the Bhutto clan of the Pakistan People’s Party and the Sharif clan of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Imran Khan, who has built a reputation…
