nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220412-182231-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220412s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220412-182231-0 doi eng 342 23 Csontos, Andras Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3184-9782 A Bold Defence of Parliamentarism - How Pakistan’s Supreme Court Blocked Imran Khan’s Attempt to Stay in Power Csontos, Andras Verfassungsblog 2022-04-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Pakistan Parliamentarism supreme court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-bold-defence-of-parliamentarism/ raw object