Left red-faced, Prime Minister Imran Khan blamed the voters for electing Mr Gilani, whom he considered a corrupt politician. Without mincing words he declared, “It can’t happen that we play Sharif Sharif and do everything according to law. A year later a joint PML(N)–PPP assault failed to de-seat him as 14 defectors saved Mr Sanjrani in an anticlimactic Senate vote. Mr Sanjrani is a Baloch and a leading light of the BAP which has never made a secret of its being a pro-establishment party. Mr Sanjrani has all along stayed the course charted out for him.

Source: Pakistan Today March 11, 2021 18:03 UTC