The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday, April 7, annulled the dissolution of the National Assembly and ordered that it proceed to the vote on the motion of no confidence presented by the opposition against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Court considered as "contrary to the Constitution and without legal effect" the refusal of the vice-president of the National Assembly, a faithful of the Prime Minister, to put this motion to a vote on Sunday, which had allowed Imran Khan to avoid being knocked down most likely.
Pakistan's Supreme Court will rule Thursday evening on the legality of the process that allowed Prime Minister Imran Khan to avoid a no-confidence vote and obtain the dissolution of the National Assembly, leading to the calling of early elections. .
The Court had indicated that it would rule only on the legality of the decision of the Vice-President of the Assembly, who had refused to vote on the motion on the grounds that it was unconstitutional because it resulted from "foreign interference". .
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed Islamic republic of 220 million, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, is used to political crises.
No Prime Minister has ever completed his mandate in this country which, since its independence in 1947, has known four successful military putsches and at least as many coup attempts, and has spent more than three decades under a military regime.
With AFP
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