The Supreme Court says it will weigh in Monday on the Pakistan crisis.

Hours after Prime Minister Imran Khan declared the Nationwide Meeting dissolved on Sunday, stopping a no-confidence vote that appeared positive to oust him, opposition leaders challenged the transfer earlier than Pakistan’s Supreme Courtroom.

The Supreme Courtroom mentioned it will hear their petition Monday. The court docket might declare Mr. Khan’s transfer illegal and permit the vote to proceed.

Ought to that occur, it’s removed from clear what Mr. Khan would do subsequent.

Some analysts in Pakistan speculated that he may need members of the opposition arrested, on the grounds that they have been a part of what he claims to be an American conspiracy to take away him from workplace. Mr. Khan has led a rising crackdown on dissent, and opponents have accused him of concentrating on opposition members underneath the pretext of an anticorruption marketing campaign.

One lawmaker from Mr. Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf get together, Kanwal Shauzab, mentioned arresting opposition members was a “chance” so long as it was completed “in accordance with the legislation of the land.”

“We aren’t going to go after the opposition with none purpose. It’s what they’ve completed. They should pay for their very own deeds,” she added.

Such arrests might scale back the bulk that had appeared poised to oust Mr. Khan. However his transfer Sunday appeared to danger costing him supporters of his personal. One outspoken lawmaker from his get together, Aamir Liaquat Husain, resigned in protest, becoming a member of dozens of members of Mr. Khan’s coalition who’ve defected in current weeks.

Making an attempt to move off such defections, the inside minister mentioned Tehreek-e-Insaf had the assist of Pakistan’s establishments in dissolving the legislature — an apparent reference to the navy, whose backing is taken into account important to the survival of Pakistan’s civilian governments.

Army leaders had appeared to withdraw assist from Mr. Khan late final yr after a dispute over its management. They’ve maintained that the navy stays impartial within the present political disaster.

However a spokesman for the military denied that it had been concerned in or supported Sunday’s developments. It was the primary time navy leaders had so brazenly instructed that they didn’t assist Mr. Khan’s bid to remain in workplace. To some, it raised the specter of the door for navy intervention — a well-recognized sample in Pakistan’s historical past — ought to the political disaster drag on.