As Pakistan recovered from Saturday’s long and tiring National Assembly (NA) session which saw Imran Khan lose his government, politicians yesterday submitted their nomination papers for the prime minister’s election.

As the nation recovered from yesterday's long and tiring National Assembly session which saw Imran Khan lose his government, politicians went about business as usual on Sunday and submitted their nomination papers for the prime minister's election.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, is all set to become the next Prime Minister after Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was voted out in a no-confidence motion.

In the wake of the prevailing situation in the country, the security and Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) immigration staff was put on high alert with a directive to stop any government official travelling abroad without a No-Objection Certificate (NoC), according to a senior FIA official.

Over a month after the no-confidence motion was tabled against Prime Minister Imran Khan on March 8, members of the National Assembly finally cast their votes to make Imran Khan the first prime minister in the country's history to be ousted through a vote of no confidence.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has lost the voting on a no-confidence motion moved against him by the joint opposition in the National Assembly.

Pakistan’s lower house of parliament today voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from office, following a nearly 14-hour standoff between the opposition and Khan’s ruling party that started yesterday morning. 

The opposition's no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeded an hour past midnight on Sunday, with 174 members in the 342-strong house voting in favour of the motion.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said he would accept the Supreme Court’s verdict on a no-confidence motion, but added he would not recognise an opposition government if it succeeded in an attempt to oust him, the latest twist in a political crisis engulfing the nuclear-armed nation. 

Sri Lanka’s main opposition party yesterday asked the government to take effective action to resolve an economic crisis or face a no-confidence motion, as business leaders from garments, tea and other industries warned exports could fall 20-30 percent this year.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan today sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in fresh terror financing cases, PTI reported.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's historic verdict directing Prime Minister Imran Khan to face the no-confidence motion against him, the embattled premier is expected to address the nation today during which he will make an "important announcement".

Pakistani opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday said his allies have nominated him as the next prime minister if they are able to vote out Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan faces being booted from office at the weekend after the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that parliament had been illegally dissolved and a no-confidence vote on his government must go ahead.

Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Prime Minister Imran Khan's move to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional and called for lawmakers to return in two days, a decision that could spell the end of his premiership.

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Thursday said that it was clear that the April 3 ruling of National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri, which dismissed the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, was erroneous.

India’s Jammu and Kashmir High Court has given six weeks to the authorities to identify migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar who are illegally staying in the federally-ruled territory.

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, his government’s whip said yesterday, despite demonstrations against his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades and as doctors held street protests over a shortage of medicine.

Pakistan’s top court could rule today on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to block an opposition attempt to oust him, a step his critics say is unconstitutional and has touched off political turmoil.

Sri Lanka’s president lost his parliamentary majority yesterday as dozens of lawmakers walked out of ruling coalition and urged his resignation, following days of street protests over the island nation’s crippling economic crisis.