Pakistan Government Falls

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has become the first PM of the country to be removed by a no-trust vote. Mr Khan, who stayed defiant "till the last ball", was ousted well after midnight, after high drama in the Pakistan assembly through the day.

The trilateral alliance between India, Afghanistan and Iran on the strategic Chabahar port is a security threat to Pakistan, defence experts in Islamabad have said and asked the government to use diplomatic manoeuvres to avert falling into an "abyss of isolation".

Alleging that "India's democracy was under assault" from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, the Congress on Wednesday said the "government humiliates people those who do fall in line".

Pakistani opposition figures ramped up calls for the fall of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government on Saturday, but failed to attract massive crowds of protesters promised at rallies in the capital.

Hopes of an economic revival by the incoming Modi-led government have helped maintain the BSE Sensex as the best performing equity index in Asia for 2014 with 23.4 per cent returns compared to Pakistan's 22.1 per cent and Indonesia's 21.7 per cent.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has become the first PM of the country to be removed by a no-trust vote. Mr Khan, who stayed defiant "till the last ball", was ousted well after midnight, after high drama in the Pakistan assembly through the day.

The trilateral alliance between India, Afghanistan and Iran on the strategic Chabahar port is a security threat to Pakistan, defence experts in Islamabad have said and asked the government to use diplomatic manoeuvres to avert falling into an "abyss of isolation".

Alleging that "India's democracy was under assault" from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, the Congress on Wednesday said the "government humiliates people those who do fall in line".

Pakistani opposition figures ramped up calls for the fall of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government on Saturday, but failed to attract massive crowds of protesters promised at rallies in the capital.

Hopes of an economic revival by the incoming Modi-led government have helped maintain the BSE Sensex as the best performing equity index in Asia for 2014 with 23.4 per cent returns compared to Pakistan's 22.1 per cent and Indonesia's 21.7 per cent.