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Pakistan constitutional crisis: Key opposition leaders

Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has emerged as the main candidate to replace Khan as prime minister [Faisal Mahmood/Reuters]

The Pakistan president has dissolved the parliament on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan, who called for fresh elections after a no-confidence motion brought by the joint opposition was dismissed by the deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

The deputy speaker declared the motion unconstitutional, saying it is part of a plot by what he called “foreign powers” to interfere in Pakistan’s democracy.

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