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National Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote

In the early hours of 10 April 2022 the National Assembly passed a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan, the first such removal of a Pakistani prime minister. He did not write the 1973 constitution’s Article 95. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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In the early hours of 10 April 2022 the National Assembly passed a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan, the first such removal of a Pakistani prime minister.

Context

Coalition partners had defected. The Court had restored the session. Shehbaz was elected the next day. He did not write the 1973 constitution’s Article 95. A completed removal is still ordinary rotation after an extraordinary week.

The 3 April dissolution advice is the neighbouring opening. Shehbaz’s 11 April election is on Shehbaz’s row.

Pakistan’s prime minister is elected by the National Assembly and chairs the cabinet. He does not write IMF Executive Board minutes, Indian statutes, army operational orders, NAB judgments, or PBS CPI methodology. A maiden speech is not a Finance Act. A rally is not a gazette. A diplomatic cable is not a completed foreign coup. A tweet is not a statute.

Why it matters

The path is democratic resilience: a completed no-confidence removal records that a parliamentary majority can still change a prime minister, after a week in which he tried to block it.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Imran Khan

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    The House voted. He lost coalition arithmetic. The Court had restored the session. He did not cast the deciding ballots.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactNational Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote
    2. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 10 April 2022 · verified

    A completed no-confidence removal, after a failed dissolution, records that parliamentary arithmetic can still change the executive.

    • Having a say in government

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.28 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.7)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Clean elections index

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.

      Above normal = better

    • WJP Rule of Law Index (global)

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      Above normal = better

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Imran Khan ousted after losing no-confidence voteReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.National Assembly of Pakistan — election of prime minister, 11 April 2022 neighbourhoodNational Assembly of Pakistan · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

National Assembly of Pakistan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 10 April 2022 no-confidence vote removing him, independently reported.

Not established: that the CIA authored the vote, or a unique later inflation coefficient from the night.

He lost coalition arithmetic. The Court had restored the session. He did not cast the deciding ballots.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote, not a later speech about National Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The House voted. He lost coalition arithmetic. The Court had restored the session. He did not cast the deciding ballots. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorImran Khan
  2. contributed toFactNational Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote
  3. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). National Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-noconfidence-2022

https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-noconfidence-2022

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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