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Topic: Imran Khan

Oscar should’ve gone to Pakistan PM Imran Khan for best performance to save his chair

It was a busy week for Khan—losing the majority in the Assembly, marketing a ‘threat letter’, doing everything but plugging holes in a sinking Titanic.

Political turmoil in Pakistan adds to surge in default risk, triggers currency & bond loss

Pakistan’s default risk as measured by five-year credit-default swaps has climbed to highest since 2013. While its 5.625% dollar bonds due in December have already tumbled 5%.

People of Pakistan must clean the mess that Imran has created, says ex-wife Reham Khan

Reham said Imran does not have the 'intelligence and capability' to be a prime minister.

US rejects Imran Khan’s claim it wants his govt ousted in Pakistan

In a televised address Thursday night, Khan named the US as the country behind a threatening letter he’s been hyping up after key allies deserted him, ahead of no-confidence vote Sunday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan won’t resign, says ‘foreign country’ wants to defeat him

Imran Khan accused the Opposition of ‘selling out’; ‘the country should not forgive them,’ he said.

Imran Khan lives to see another day, will address nation tonight

The Lower House opened to debate a no-confidence vote against Imran Khan but was soon adjourned due to the Opposition’s “non-serious attitude”.

Want to understand Pakistan’s political crisis? Watch this Mirzapur meme

A Mirzapur meme encapsulating Pakistan’s political crisis and the drama around no trust vote against Imran Khan has gone viral.

In Pakistan, it’s a free play of political opportunists, not a struggle for democracy

Like other populist leaders facing the threat of being ousted by elected representatives, Imran Khan is using the religion and nationalist cards.

Mysterious Bill Gates photo highlights Imran Khan’s army crisis

The vacant space contained a ghost-like figure who appeared to be conversing with others around him, raising questions about whether the image had been doctored.

Imran Khan gets his ‘Chris Rock’ moment, and how small fuel price shocks every day are better

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.