No-confidence vote on Mar 25

Pakistan's parliament will convene on Friday to take up a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, the lower house speaker's office said yesterday, in what shapes up as his toughest test since coming to power in 2018. An alliance of opposition parties filed the motion against Khan this month, saying he had lost his parliamentary majority after over a dozen defections from his party, raising the risk of political turmoil in the nuclear-armed South Asian country. Under the constitution, the Speaker of the lower house of parliament is required to convene the session within 14 days of receiving the motion, which would fall today. But a statement from the Speaker's Office said the date was pushed back several days because of a conference of Islamic countries in Islamabad scheduled for March 23.