Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan wins vote of confidence

Agencies | Islamabad

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan won a vote of confidence in parliament on Saturday, the speaker announced after the vote, backed by 178 lawmakers in the 342-member National Assembly.

All 160 members of the opposition had boycotted the vote, dpa reported.

PTI has 157 MPs in the lower house. Khan was backed by 176 members when elected prime minister in 2018.

"I thank my allied parties, who have always stood behind me during every test," Khan said in his address to the parliamentarians.

He said lawmakers from his party were perturbed after what had happened in the recent Senate elections but had emerged as a strong team for Saturday's vote.

Khan volunteered to face the confidence vote after his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party's candidate was defeated in a Senate election by a former prime minister earlier this week.