Pakistan political crisis

-Recently Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan blocked a no-confidence vote (In which he was sure to lose )and advised the president to order fresh elections, fueling anger among the opposition and deepening the country's political crisis.

-Pakistan’s president has dissolved the National Assembly on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

-The deputy speaker declared the motion for a no-confidence vote against Khan unconstitutional and part of a plot by “foreign powers” to interfere in Pakistan’s democracy.

- The opposition thought it had the votes to remove Khan after several political allies and members of his party switched sides.

-Opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says they will petition the Supreme Court against the move.

-Khan’s cabinet has been dissolved, says the information minister

Since coming to power in 2018, Khan's rhetoric has become more anti-American and he has expressed a desire to move closer to China and, recently, Russia - including talks with President Vladimir Putin on the day the invasion of Ukraine began.

His actions have created huge uncertainty in Islamabad, with constitutional experts debating their legality and pondering whether Khan and his rivals can find a way forward.

Since  2018, Imrans policy were  more anti-American and he has expressed a desire to move closer to China .

                                                                                INDIA

The neighbours have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two of them over the disputed Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir.

As with Afghanistan, it is Pakistan's military that controls policy in the sensitive area, and tensions along the de facto border there are at their lowest level since 2021.

There have been no formal diplomatic talks between the rivals for years because of deep distrust over a range of issues including Khan's extreme criticism of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his handling of attacks on minority Muslims in India.

The Pakistani military could put pressure on a new civilian government in Islamabad to build on the successful ceasefire in Kashmir.

                                                                      AFGHANISTAN

Ties between Pakistan's military intelligence agency and the Islamist militant Taliban have loosened in recent years.

Now the Taliban are back in power, and facing an economic and humanitarian crisis due to a lack of money and international isolation, Qatar is arguably their most important foreign partner.

"We (the United States) don't need Pakistan as a conduit to the Taliban.

Tensions have risen between the Taliban and Pakistan's military, which has lost several soldiers in attacks close to their mutual border. Pakistan wants the Taliban to do more to crack down on extremist groups and worries they will spread violence into Pakistan. That has begun to happen already.

Imran Khan has been less critical of the Taliban over human rights than most foreign leaders.

                                                                          CHINA

Imran Khan has consistently emphasised China's positive role in Pakistan and in the world at large.

At the same time, the $65-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was actually conceptualised and launched under Pakistan's two established political parties, both of which want Khan out of power.

                                                                  UNITED STATES

Khan has blamed the United States for the current political crisis, saying that Washington wanted him removed because of the recent Moscow tri

Pakistan's political crisis is unlikely to be a priority for President Joe Biden, who is grappling with the war in Ukraine, unless it led to mass unrest or rising tensions with India.