Imran asked sons not to come to oath-taking ceremony: Jemima
Jemima said the boys wanted to be at the swearing-in ceremony.
(Web Desk) – Incoming prime minister Imran Khan’s son will not be attending their father’s oath-taking ceremony which is scheduled to take place at the President’s Secretariat on August 18, Jemima Khan confirmed in a tweet Friday.
Jemima was responding to a tweet by a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporter, who said people wanted to see the sons of the prime minister-elect attend their father’s swearing-in ceremony.
Lawmakers in the National Assembly endorsed Imran Khan as their next prime minister, ahead of a ceremony that should see the World Cup cricket hero sworn in as leader of the nuclear-armed nation.
Imran Khan scraped together a simple majority in a confidence vote held in the lower house of parliament, three weeks after an election tainted by claims of military meddling and ballot rigging.
"Imran Khan has secured 176 votes," National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser said after the vote, broadcast live from the lower house of parliament.
He had needed 172 votes for a majority. His only rival, Shahbaz Sharif of the ousted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), won 96 votes, Qaiser said, with some opposition parties including the third-largest Pakistan People s Party (PPP) abstaining from the vote.
The result brings him one step closer to ending decades of rotating leadership between the PML-N and the PPP, punctuated by periods of military rule.
Khan, clad in a waistcoat and traditional white shalwar kameez garments, smiled broadly and could be seen wiping tears from his eyes while clutching prayer beads as the count was announced.
He had appeared relaxed before the vote, smiling and shaking hands with other parliamentarians, including Sharif.
The former cricketer, who captained Pakistan to World Cup victory in 1992, won the July 25 election but fell short of an outright majority, forcing him to partner with smaller parties and independents in order to form a government.
