The trees want to be quiet and the wind is not stopping! At a time when the war between Russia and Ukraine has not completely dissipated, the political situation in Pakistan has suddenly changed, causing countless Chinese people to worry.
Quoting foreign media reports, in the early morning of April 10, local time, Pakistan's National Assembly voted on the recall of Prime Minister Imran Khan proposed by the opposition coalition, and after a fierce duel, the resolution was finally passed, and Imran Khan was tragically deposed.
The opposition side was naturally jubilant when the results of the vote were announced, but they also knew that the victory was not enough for them to completely let go of their burdens. According to Pakistan's constitution, all no-confidence resolutions can be adopted by more than half of all 342 seats, that is, 172 votes, but the final result shows that it is only 174:0, in other words, the opposition only wins by a narrow margin, and the internal and external resistance it encounters is quite fierce.
To show support for Imran Khan himself, hundreds of members of Parliament left early in protest, resulting in his zero vote.
As for Imran Khan, the "cricket hero" who was once loved by the Pakistani people has unconsciously set two embarrassing records in the political field that he is not familiar with. First, he was the first prime minister in Pakistani politics to be deposed. Second, he was the first prime minister to fail to complete his five-year term.
Without a complex and profound political game, without a bizarre plot like a house of cards, Pakistan's political drama is almost equivalent to "a blind cat meets a dead rat", and the two sides of the government and the opposition jointly perform a farce for the world.
According to Indian media reports, pakistan's National Assembly will elect a new prime minister next Monday, when Imran Khan will automatically suspend the post of prime minister. Before that, he himself had moved out of the Prime Minister's Office, which symbolized the official residence of the country's leaders, and declared the end of this political turmoil in a lamentable way.
In addition to leading the team to beat the Indian national cricket team and winning the World Cup for Pakistan after decades of absence, Imran Khan also has an important label on his body, that is, "pro-China". In today's turbulent international situation, a national leader like Imran Khan, who is not afraid of Western powers, has repeatedly spoken out for China's justice and firmly supported China's core interests, which is invaluable.
For example, he himself repeatedly scoffed at the "Global Democracy Summit" organized by Biden last year, stressing that it was "a symbol of Western hegemony." At a time when the Storm of the Anglo-American diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics was intensifying, Imran Khan, together with Russian President Putin and Argentine President Fernandez, went to Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Chinese distinguished guests. Last month, Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Pakistan and participated in the Pakistan Independence Day military parade, and the appearance of the J-10C fighter and the domestically produced howitzer once again demonstrated the principle of "no forbidden area and no upper limit" for Sino-Pakistani cooperation.
Against the backdrop of the continuous consolidation and development of the traditional friendship between China and Pakistan, some foreign forces with ulterior motives have begun to obstruct it, and they have tried to subvert China-Pakistan relations by implementing coups and color revolutions in Pakistan."
A few days ago, a letter signed pakistan's ambassador to the United States was submitted to the country's Supreme Court. The US side said that if the distrust resolution against Imran Khan is not passed, then the US-Pakistani relations will "face serious consequences", on the contrary, the Pakistani side's previous unfriendly behavior towards the United States will be forgiven by the Washington authorities. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Imran Khan suddenly exposed the news in a televised speech, claiming that the opposition coalition's conspiracy against him had received support from the United States, and that American diplomats in Pakistan had met with members of the opposition party. Colluding with the opposition in other countries to plot a coup d'état is a common tactic of the White House.
Not surprisingly, the conspiratorial American politicians are now celebrating that, after a difficult farewell to Imran Khan, the next Prime Minister of Pakistan is likely to be Shabaz Sharif, the opposition leader who played a key role in the coup. Shabbaz, who colluded with the Americans to ascend to power, will take the traditional friendship between China and Pakistan to where it will go, which has become the focus of concern of many Chinese people.
In fact, both Imran Khan and Shabaz Sharif are impeccable "pro-China factions", and the Americans have worked hard to attack Pakistan, and in the end they are only busy in vain. The reason why China and Pakistan have been able to maintain a solid friendship that has lasted for decades is not only because the two countries face the same geostrategic threat (India), nor is it that both have a modern history of being enslaved and invaded by imperialism, but more importantly, the two sides have built a new era of bilateral relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which can be called a model of international relations.
To put it simply, Pakistan only has "pro-China factions" and no "anti-China factions", and there will be no market for any anti-China words and deeds in the local area, let alone politicians who are exposed in the spotlight in real time.
The 70-year-old Shabaz Sharif is the younger brother of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and it is this Nawaz Sharif who has visited China many times during his term of office and carried out many cooperation with the Chinese side. From 1997 to mid-2018, Shabbaz was elected Chief Minister of Punjab three times, during which he actively used the construction opportunity of the China-Pakistan Economic Cooperation Corridor to work closely with China to successfully build Pakistan's first subway, the Lahore Rail Transit Orange Line Project.
Obviously, in the case of Pakistan's faltering economy, no matter which leader comes to power, it needs the economic support of the Chinese side, and the rich energy cooperation, infrastructure construction projects and military cooperation projects between the two countries are the pillars to ensure the stability of long-term friendly cooperation between China and Pakistan.
Regarding the changes in Pakistan's political situation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that China has always pursued the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, so it will not "take sides" in this incident. The all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between China and Pakistan is built by all the people of the two countries in the long-term historical development, and will not be changed by the turmoil in the world and changes in domestic politics. As a "hardcore" friend, China sincerely hopes that all factions in Pakistan will maintain unity and safeguard the overall situation of long-term development and stability of the country.