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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Imran Khan appears to want to keep power in Pakistan at any cost

Pakistani lawmakers of the united opposition walk towards the parliament building in Islamabad intending to deliver votes of no-confidence in Imran Khan before Khan dissolved the parliament.
United opposition lawmakers walk towards the parliament building in Islamabad intending to deliver votes of no-confidence in Imran Khan before Khan dissolved the parliament. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Imran Khan’s dramatic move to dissolve Pakistan’s parliament on Sunday morning, ahead of a vote that almost certainly would have removed him from office, reads to many like the desperate actions of a prime minister who will try to hold on to power at any cost.

While his repeated allegations of a “foreign conspiracy” and pressure from the US being behind the no-confidence vote has played well to his diehard supporters, most of whom are vehemently opposed to the west, it is still a very risky move for Khan.

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