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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted by a no-confidence vote in parliament following a court battle

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Imran Khan at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011. Image via Flickr by World Economic Forum. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Imran Khan was removed as prime minister of Pakistan as he lost a no-confidence motion just before the clock struck midnight at the end of April 9, 2022. The opposition parties secured 174 votes in favour of the motion in the 342-member National Assembly. This was the end of the drama that started earlier this year when the opposition parties started discussing a no-confidence motion against Khan and the ruling PTI, with some members of his alliance indicating they might swing…

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