“Part of the issue at play is Khan’s competitive streak,” says Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia programme at the Washington-based Wilson Center. Last week, moreover, he attempted to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections, a move Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. Instead, Khan has fought tooth and nail to prevent the vote from going ahead, insisting that he was the victim of a US plot. Dismissed in the early hours of Sunday, after losing a no-confidence vote in parliament, he is to be replaced as prime minister by Shahbaz Sharif, a politician from the opposition alliance.īut the former international sportsman has not gone gently. From Karachi to Lahore, Islamabad to Peshawar – and even in Hyde Park in London – tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the ousting of 69-year-old Khan, the prime minister, after four years in government. On Sunday evening, as dusk fell and the Ramadan fast ended, the streets of Pakistan’s cities filled with people waving flags bearing the red and green logo of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party founded by Imran Khan.
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