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Pakistani court to rule on election bid amid row on PM Khan’s removal

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Pakistan’s Supreme Court weighed in on a brewing political crisis on Sunday after parliament was dissolved when a no-confidence motion to seek the removal of Prime Minister Imran Khan was dismissed. The South Asian nuclear power, one of the few democracies among the Muslim-majority nations, is up against another crisis in its brief history marred by frequent coups by powerful generals. President Arif Alvi dissolved the National Assembly minutes after the speaker threw out the motion before it even went to a vote in the parliament, where Khan’s party had already lost its majority. Most lawyers …

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