Khan had claimed the no-trust vote by the Opposition was part of a US-led conspiracy to remove him, but Washington has denied this. "The nation is stunned," the Dawn newspaper said in a stinging editorial titled 'Democracy subverted'. The Express Tribune newspaper in its editorial noted that the spirit of democracy wasn't played well. The Dawn newspaper, like other experts, pointed out that constitutionally, Khan could not have dissolved the National Assembly while a vote of no-confidence was pending against him. "His request was, again with indecent haste, admitted by the president, who then promptly dismissed the National Assembly," it noted.

Source: Indian Express April 05, 2022 01:40 UTC