Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi on April 3 dissolved the National Assembly on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
- Imran Khan addressed the nation before that, Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri dismissed the no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against Prime Minister Khan, terming it against the Article 5 of Pakistan’s Constitution.
- As the National Assembly met in the morning, apparently preparing to vote on the no-confidence motion, the Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhary, requested the Speaker to first decide on the constitutionality of the motion.
What is Article 5?
- Article 5 has two clauses. Clause (1) states that “Loyalty to the State is the basic duty of every citizen”; Clause 2 states that “obedience to the Constitution and law is the inviolable obligation of every citizen wherever he may be and every other person for the time being within Pakistan”.
- Fawad Chaudhary used Clause 1 to reiterate Imran’s allegation of a “foreign conpiracy” against the government.
- He said the no-confidence motion was a conspiracy hatched by a “powerful country” that did not want Pakistan to have an independent foreign policy.
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