http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220412-182231-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-bold-defence-of-parliamentarism/ A Bold Defence of Parliamentarism - How Pakistan’s Supreme Court Blocked Imran Khan’s Attempt to Stay in Power Csontos, Andras eng 2022-04-12 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Pakistan Parliamentarism supreme court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 At midnight on 10 April 2022, Pakistan’s National Assembly voted to pass a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Imran Khan, ousting his populist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party from power three and a half years after its controversial election. The civilian government went to great lengths to stay in power, using allies in nominally impartial state offices to unconstitutionally dismiss the no-confidence motion and call snap elections. This attempt, however, failed - largely due to the country’s Supreme Court, which in a ruling on 7 April 2022 intervened decisively to protect the National Assembly from dissolution and order the vote to go ahead.