Areez Tariq
Independent Political Analyst
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Abstract: On 10 April 2022 Pakistan’s National Assembly removed Prime Minister Imran Khan via a motion of noconfidence, ending a turbulent three-year premiership. The episode combined parliamentary arithmetic, an aborted dissolution attempt, a decisive Supreme Court ruling, high-stakes coalition bargaining, contested narratives of foreign interference, and intensified public mobilization. This article reconstructs the constitutional and political sequence of events, analyzes the proximate and structural causes, evaluates institutional roles (parliament, judiciary, and military), and assesses consequences for Pakistan’s democratic stability. Drawing on contemporaneous reporting, legal orders, parliamentary records, and scholarly commentary, the paper argues that Khan’s fall was driven primarily by coalition defections and a judicially enforced return to parliamentary procedure, while subsequent politicization of institutions accelerated polarization and litigative politics.
Keywords: Imran Khan; No-confidence Motion; Supreme Court of Pakistan; Civil–Military Relations; Political Polarization.