Pakistan's Supreme Court Overturns Dissolution of National Assembly; Sets Date for No-Confidence Vote

Today, a five-judge panel of the Pakistani Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, which has been hearing the opposition’s petition to overturn Prime Minister Imran Khan’s dissolution of the National Assembly to block a no-confidence vote organized directly from Washington, D.C., issued a unanimous ruling that the actions taken on April 3 which led to the dissolution of the assembly were unconstitutional and of no legal effect. The court then ordered the National Assembly speaker to convene a session of the lower house of Parliament at 10 a.m. on April 9 and hold the vote on the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Khan.