Pakistan’s Supreme Court adjourned until Wednesday a hearing to decide the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s blocking of an opposition bid to oust him, a dispute that has led to political turmoil in the country.
Khan lost his parliamentary majority last week and had been facing a no-confidence vote tabled by a united opposition.
But the deputy speaker of parliament, a member of Khan’s party, threw out the motion, ruling it was part of a foreign conspiracy and unconstitutional. Khan then dissolved parliament.
Official sources told The Express Tribune newspaper that a wrong impression was given about the military leadership endorsing