“Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved Pakistan’s National Assembly and called for new elections on Sunday, blocking a no-confidence vote that had been widely expected to remove him from office and threatening to plunge the country into a constitutional crisis,” the New York Times reports.
Pakistan Prime Minister Dissolves Parliament
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