{"id":300907,"date":"2018-07-30T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300907"},"modified":"2018-07-30T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:11:26","slug":"imran-khan-tipped-to-take-oath-as-pak-pm-on-august-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/imran-khan-tipped-to-take-oath-as-pak-pm-on-august-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan tipped to take oath as Pak PM on August 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300812 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/imran-khan-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-khan-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-khan-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-khan-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-khan-667x420.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-khan.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/>Imran Khan, whose Pakistan\u2019s Tehreek-e-Insaf has emerged as the single largest party in recently concluded election in Pakistan, is likely to be sworn in as the Prime Minister on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1724458209\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 11<\/span><\/span>, three days before the country\u2019s independence day that falls on\u00a0<span class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376gmail-aBn\"><span class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376gmail-aQJ\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1724458210\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 14<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Highly placed sources said that 65-year old Khan\u2019s party is also trying to cobble together a coalition government with smaller parties and independents because though\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">emerging as the single largest party the PTI is still short of the numbers required to form a government.\u00a0\u00a0The PTI got 115 general seats, which is 12 short of a simple majority in the July 25 elections, whereas opposition parties Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) won 64 and 43 seats, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The lower house of the Pakistan Parliament comprises a total of 342 members and a party can form the government only if they manage to secure 172 seats in total.\u00a0\u00a0The PTI leadership has reportedly been approaching the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), PML-Quaid (PML-Q), and the Awami Party (BAP), as well as independents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, PTI spokesperson Naeemul Haque had told reporters\u00a0that party chief Khan will take oath as the Prime Minister before\u00a0<span class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376gmail-aBn\"><span class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376gmail-aQJ\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1724458211\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 14<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0He said that he hoped the President would call an Assembly session and Khan would take\u00a0oath as Prime Minister before Pakistan\u2019s Independence Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Imran Khan himself set at rest speculation about the date and he was quoted as saying on Radio Pakistan that\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;I will take oath as Prime Minister on 11th of next month that is\u00a0<span class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376gmail-aBn\"><span class=\"m_8442782411750709632yiv0775078376gmail-aQJ\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1724458212\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201d. That shows that the party has done its homework and is confident of forming a majority government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan, whose Pakistan\u2019s Tehreek-e-Insaf has emerged as the single largest party in recently concluded election in Pakistan, is likely to be sworn in as the Prime Minister on August 11, three days before the country\u2019s independence day that falls on\u00a0August 14. Highly placed sources said that 65-year old Khan\u2019s party is also trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":300812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3867,48,1346,3904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300909,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300907\/revisions\/300909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}