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    Pakistan's PM Imran Khan dissolves Parliament before confidence vote

    Pakistan's politics was thrown into dissarray on Sunday after PM Khan asked the president to dissolve parliament, interrupting a session where he had been expected to lose a no-confidence motion.
    by Diaa Hadid Apr 03, 2022 3 minutes
    Updated April 3, 2022 at 4:26 AM ET

    ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is heading to a constitutional crisis after president Dr Arif Alvi dissolved the national assembly at the request of prime minister Imran Khan, who had been facing a no-confidence motion against him that was likely to succeed.

    The developments came after more than a dozen of Khan's own lawmakers and at least one coalition ally announced their support for the opposition this week.

    A spokeswoman for a chief opposition party known as

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