Islamabad, Pakistan – Prime Minister Imran Khan will face a vote of confidence from the country’s Parliament after suffering defeat on a key seat in the country’s Senate elections, party officials say.
Elections for 48 seats of the Senate, the 96-member upper house of parliament, were held on Wednesday, with legislators voting through the day in the country’s provincial assemblies and in the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament.
Official results are expected on Thursday, but unofficial results from the country’s Election Commission indicated Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had suffered a key defeat in the National Assembly, where the opposition candidate defeated the PTI’s Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.