Pakistan’s top court rules Imran Khan acted illegally over confidence vote

A general view of the Supreme Court where hearing of petitions for dissolving parliament by country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is going on, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan’s Supreme Court said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve Parliament was illegal and ordered that the house be restored.

The decision on Thursday came after four days of hearings by the top court. Mr Khan will now face a no-confidence vote by legislators that he had tried to sidestep.