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Pakistani PM Imran Khan sidesteps no-confidence vote

Pakistan is in crisis after Prime Minister Imran Khan sidestepped a no-confidence vote in Parliament that he was set to lose. Khan asked the presidency to dissolve the assembly, and the deputy speaker, a member of his own party, stopped the vote.

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