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How Pakistan’s political crisis could play out in the coming days

Supporters of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party light up their mobile phones and chant slogans during a rally in Islamabad [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]

Pakistan’s Supreme Court is looking into the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s unexpected move over the weekend to block a parliamentary vote against him and then call for a snap general election.

The deputy speaker of parliament, a member of Khan’s party, threw out the no-confidence motion that Khan had widely been expected to lose, ruling that it was part of a foreign conspiracy and unconstitutional.

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