Imran Khan appears to want to keep power in Pakistan at any cost

Prime minister cuts an increasingly isolated figure - and his dramatic dissolution of parliament is a very risky move

Imran Khan's dramatic move to dissolve Pakistan's parliament on Sunday morning, ahead of a vote that almost certainly would have removed him from office, reads to many like the desperate actions of a prime minister who will try to hold on to power at any cost.

While his repeated allegations of a foreign conspiracy" and pressure from the US being behind the no-confidence vote has played well to his diehard supporters, most of whom are vehemently opposed to the west, it is still a very risky move for Khan.