... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
prepared for a victory rally to celebrate the success of his campaign to remove Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
from office, he said his aim was to take the job himself next year.
Khan wants to ride the momentum of his drive against Sharif to win the 2018 general election, more than 20 years after he entered politics.
"We will contest the elections and I'm confident we will win the elections," Khan, 64, told Rooters late on Saturday.
He dismissed his own pending Supreme Court case investigating unreported assets as a political vendetta and vowed his future government would focus not on big infrastructure projects but on development for the poor.
On Friday, the Supreme Court disqualified Sharif from office on the grounds he did not report a nominal monthly salary from his son's Dubai-based company, money the prime minister says he never received.
Khan spearheaded demands for an investigation on Sharif after the leaking of the Panama Papers, which revealed his family had bought expensive London apartments through offshore companies.
In the end, the Panama Papers-related allegations were not the basis for Sharif's dismissal, but Khan's threat to paralyze the capital with street protests last year led to the court investigation into the premier's finances.