Army backing vital for Imran Khan to survive today's confidence vote

Khan's meeting with Bajwa rankled the opposition. "It gives a wrong message," opposition leader Maryam Nawaz said at a briefing on Thursday

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan spent much of his election campaign in 2018 denying he was a military stooge. Yet after suffering a shocking loss in parliament this week, he turned to the nation’s powerful army chief.
 
Khan met army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa along with the head of the military’s spy agency on Thursday after his finance minister lost a tightly fought battle for a seat in the Senate, or the upper house. The conversation with the head of the institution that has conducted numerous coups, and retains tremendous sway over policy, is likely to send a