{"id":43350,"date":"2022-04-08T03:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/07\/pakistan-top-court-orders-vote-on-imran-khan-to-go-ahead"},"modified":"2022-04-08T03:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:23:06","slug":"pakistan-court-orders-imran-khan-confidence-vote-to-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43350","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan court orders Imran Khan confidence vote to go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court rules PM acted unconstitutionally in dissolving parliament before confidence vote<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s supreme court has dealt a devastating blow to the prime minister, Imran Khan, by ruling that he acted unconstitutionally in dissolving parliament prior to a confidence vote he was expected to lose, and ordering the vote to go ahead this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the conclusion to a hearing that has gripped Pakistan for the past four days, the chief justice of Pakistan, Umar Ata Bandial, said Khan had violated the law in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/pakistan-imran-khan-parliament-vote-no-confidence-early-elections\">his attempt to stop the vote<\/a>, which was widely expected to oust him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/07\/pakistan-top-court-orders-vote-on-imran-khan-to-go-ahead\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court rules PM acted unconstitutionally in dissolving parliament before confidence votePakistan\u2019s supreme court has dealt a devastating blow to the prime minister, Imran Khan, by ruling that he acted unconstitutionally in dissolving parliament &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1640,"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-43350","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\/43350","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\/1640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43351,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43350\/revisions\/43351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}