On April 3, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved his country’s parliament to stop an opposition-led effort to remove him from office.
Some two dozen lawmakers had recently left the government of Khan’s ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. That set the stage for opposition members of Pakistan’s 342-member National Assembly (lower house of parliament) to hold a no-confidence vote on March 8.
Khan was expected to lose that vote.
On April 7, Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled Khan’s move to block his removal was unconstitutional and said the National Assembly must be restored.
The vote of no confidence against Khan went forward on April 9, resulting in his ouster.
Khan and other political allies had earlier claimed that the effort to oust him was “blatant interference in domestic politics by the United States.”
And Russia has backed that narrative, with Khan and others claiming the bid to oust him stems from Pakistan’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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