{"id":43243,"date":"2022-04-04T19:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T10:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/pakistan-supreme-court-imran-khan-parliament"},"modified":"2022-04-05T03:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:45:18","slug":"pakistans-supreme-court-meets-as-imran-khan-clings-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43243","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s supreme court delays verdict on fate of Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country remains in political turmoil as it awaits ruling on PM\u2019s move to dissolve parliament and call election<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan remains without a government and engulfed in political turmoil after the supreme court delayed its verdict on whether the prime minister, Imran Khan, had violated the constitution by dissolving parliament rather than face a no-confidence vote.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s decision to call for parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/pakistan-imran-khan-parliament-vote-no-confidence-early-elections\">to be dissolved on Sunday<\/a>, rather than allow a no-confidence vote on his premiership that was expected to oust him, had been justified by him on the basis that it was an alleged \u201cforeign conspiracy\u201d led by the west against his government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/pakistan-supreme-court-imran-khan-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country remains in political turmoil as it awaits ruling on PM\u2019s move to dissolve parliament and call electionPakistan remains without a government and engulfed in political turmoil after the supreme court delayed its verdict on whether the prime minis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43243\/revisions\/43247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}