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Imran Khan Fights to Stay in Power in Pakistan – WSJ

The votes are increasingly stacking up against the former cricketing star, whose governing coalition has a thin majority in parliament


Pakistan PM Imran Khan
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asked for the country's debt to be deferred when he met Xi Jinping at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Photo: Reuters.

 

Imran Khan is fighting to hold on to power in Pakistan after a group of lawmakers from his party rebelled and allied parties in his ruling coalition said they were considering ditching him, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The votes are increasingly stacking up against the former cricketing star, whose governing coalition has a thin majority in parliament. A vote that will decide whether he keeps his post is expected later this month. His party is vowing to fight “to the last ball,” using a cricketing analogy.

 

Read the full report: The Wall Street Journal

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.