{"id":43419,"date":"2022-04-10T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/10\/opposition-supporters-celebrate-after-pakistan-parliament-ousts-imran-khan-video"},"modified":"2022-04-10T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T10:39:00","slug":"opposition-supporters-celebrate-after-pakistan-parliament-ousts-imran-khan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43419","title":{"rendered":"Opposition supporters celebrate after Pakistan parliament ousts Imran Khan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/imran-khan\">Imran Khan<\/a>, has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after a dramatic week in which he violated the constitution in an attempt to stop the move going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, the former cricketer turned pious Islamist politician, has been fighting for his political life for weeks after losing his parliamentary majority. On Thursday he was dealt a blow after Pakistan\u2019s supreme court found he had broken the law by dissolving parliament in an attempt to prevent a no-confidence vote he was expected to lose from going ahead last week.<\/p>\n<p>On the court\u2019s instructions, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/07\/pakistan-top-court-orders-vote-on-imran-khan-to-go-ahead\">vote<\/a>&nbsp;finally took place late on Saturday night, though not before Khan\u2019s party spent 14 tumultuous hours trying to delay and block it in the national assembly<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/pakistan-on-brink-of-crisis-as-imran-khan-blocks-no-confidence-vote\">Pakistan parliament ousts Imran Khan in last-minute vote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/10\/what-does-political-upheaval-in-pakistan-mean-for-the-world\">What does political upheaval in Pakistan mean for the world?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/10\/opposition-supporters-celebrate-after-pakistan-parliament-ousts-imran-khan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister,&nbsp;Imran Khan, has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after a dramatic week in which he violated the constitution in an attempt to stop the move going ahead.Khan, the former cricketer turned pious Islamist politician, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43419","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43419\/revisions\/43420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}