Pakistani media slammed Imran Khan for abandoning the democratic system, saying the prime minister’s behavior was non-player and underlined that he did not play till the last ball, as he had earlier claimed he would.
Pakistan’s leading newspaper Dawn put up an opinion piece on its website titled ‘Editorial: Democracy Subverted’, in which it criticized the Pakistan Prime Minister’s move to crush the parliamentary process and plunge the country into a constitutional crisis. Pakistani media and political commentators were somewhat certain that Imran Khan would lose the no-confidence motion moved against him, but Imran Khan on Sunday advised Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi to dissolve the National Assembly.
Gibran Nasir, while talking to news agency Dawn, said that the survival risk of PTI is that democratic processes are suppressed in a democratic nation. “Democracy can work only when all political parties, leaders and institutions are committed to a mutually agreed high value or code, which in our case is our Constitution,” Nasser said.
He said Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) decided to “sacrifice democracy to save itself”. “But they don’t realize that if democracy doesn’t last, they won’t either,” he added.
Nasser argues that the dismissal of the motion under Article 5 was unconstitutional. He was referring to Imran Khan’s cabinet minister Fawad Chaudhry’s invocation of Article 5 in the National Assembly, which says ‘loyalty to the state was a fundamental duty of every citizen’. Chowdhury questioned whether a foreign conspiracy could not be contemplated to oust the government and questioned the constitutionality of the no-confidence motion, asking the deputy speaker to weigh in.
Nasir considers it unconstitutional as it sends a message that the 86 MPs who have moved the no-confidence motion are working against the interests of Pakistan.
Outlet Dawn in its editorial also pointed to the haste with which the deputy speaker, Qasim Suri, began to read out the verdict – which many had been prepared in advance – without changing the speaker’s name to his adjourned. issued an order. Session. The Speaker of the Pakistan National Assembly could not conduct the proceedings as the opposition moved a resolution calling for the removal of Asad Qaiser, the Speaker of the National Assembly.
Salahuddin Ahmed, a lawyer, while talking to Dawn said that the deputy speaker’s action was malafide in his intent. “The court can not only intervene but can also intervene,” he was quoted as saying. Both the lawyers told the news agency that the Supreme Court of Pakistan can declare the speaker’s decision invalid.
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