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Pakistan premier gets reprieve as move to oust him blocked
Imran Khan survived a move to oust him as Pakistan's prime minister on Sunday, getting a reprieve when the deputy speaker of parliament blocked a no-confidence motion as unconstitutional.
Khan's fate was not immediately clear, leading to fresh political instability in the nuclear-armed country of 220 million people.
The opposition immediately vowed to challenge the block on the vote, made by a member of the...
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