"I was not dangerous when I was in government, but now I will be," Imran Khan continues
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Imran Khan, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, has demanded the judiciary to explain why it opened its doors at midnight on Saturday, only hours before he was deposed as Prime Minister following a successful no-confidence vote in the National Assembly.

After the Supreme Court overturned the Deputy Speaker’s decision to reject the opposition-sponsored no-confidence resolution against the ruling PTI-led coalition, the no-trust vote took place.

Mr Khan addressed the judges directly in his first public statement since regaining power on Wednesday at a rally in Peshawar, asking: “I implore the judiciary that when you opened the court in the dead of night, remember that this country has known me for 45 years. Have I ever disobeyed a law? Did anyone ever accuse me of match-fixing while I played cricket?”

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“Every time a prime minister was deposed, people would applaud it,” Imran added, referring to the rallies that began on Sunday. “But when he was dismissed from office, the public registered a protest.”

He underlined that a “foreign conspiracy” was being planned in Washington with the support of opposition parties to destabilise Pakistan’s PTI administration.

He told a large rally that the people of Pakistan will not accept Shehbaz Sharif as Prime Minister because he has 40,000 crore worth of corruption cases against him.

Imran Khan had attempted to link the opposition’s attempt to unseat him through a no-trust vote with “foreign conspiracy,” mentioning the US in several addresses. The US, on the other hand, dismissed his assertions. Imran Khan also urged people to take to the streets, while the united opposition remained committed to defeating him.

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Imran Khan has become Pakistan’s first Prime Minister to lose a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly.

Despite many attempts to halt the no-confidence resolution in the National Assembly, voting went place after midnight, with 174 members of the 342-member House voting in favour of the motion, while members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were missing.

To far, no Pakistani Prime Minister has served for the entire five-year term.