NA witnesses first ever successful vote of no-confidence in parliamentary history: Pildat.

ISLAMABAD -- The National Assembly had witnessed the first-ever successful vote of no-confidence in Pakistan's parliamentary history through which former premier Imran Khan lost the confidence of the house by 174 votes an hour past midnight on Sunday, April 10.

The 41st session of the 15th National Assembly was began on March 25 and ended on April 21.

According to PILDAT only two previous Prime Ministers have faced votes of no confidence against them in National Assembly's history: Benazir Bhutto in 1989 and Shaukat Aziz in 2006 and both survived as the votes of no confidence against them were unsuccessful. Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, MNA, PML-N was elected as Prime Minister on April 11 as Prime Minister by securing 174 votes.

Within working hours, the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan held 12 sittings in 41st session held on March 25, March 28, March 31, April 3, April 9, April 10, April 11, April 16, April 18, April 19, April 20 and April 21. However, in nearly a month-long session, the National Assembly only met for 24 hours and 10 minutes with an average time of 2 hours and 3 minutes per sitting. The average delay in starting a sitting was 38 minutes per sitting

Over 60.80% agenda items on average were left over in 12 sittings of the 41st session. Notably, on March 31, out of 24 agenda items, only 1 agenda item was taken up and no discussion was held on vote of no-confidence resolution, this was the shortest sitting of the session which lasted only 10 minutes. On April 11, the house completed the whole agenda (100%) of electing the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The maximum agenda items were left over on April 19 when 203 (98.54%) agenda items were left over out of 206. In the last sitting of the 41st session, the house completed the whole agenda including election of the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and oath of the Deputy Speaker-elect

Quorum was not pointed out during the entire 41st session of the 15th National Assembly

Muhammad Shehbaz...

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