Pakistan's president ordered parliament dissolved late Wednesday, opening the door to a caretaker government that will usher in elections in which the country's most popular politician, Imran Khan, has been sidelined.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif poses for a group photograph with parliamentarians of the National Assembly outside the parliament house building in Islamabad on August 9, 2023. Pakistan's parliament was due to be dissolved on August 9, with an interim government to be appointed to oversee an election that will not include the country's most popular politician, Imran Khan.
The new interim prime minister must be announced within three days of the parliament's dissolution, and elections held within 90 days -- but the outgoing government has already warned they are likely to be delayed until next year. "Economic decisions are invariably tough and often unpopular, requiring a government with a longer tenure to effectively implement them," said Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, president of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency think tank.
Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, told AFP that any delay could give time to the main coalition partners, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party , to figure out how to address the challenge of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Khan enjoyed genuine widespread support when he came to power in 2018 but analysts say it was only with the blessing of Pakistan's powerful generals -- with whom he reportedly fell out in the months before his ousting.
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