What 1958 doctrine justified extra-constitutional government changes?

Explanation

– The “Doctrine of Necessity,” first articulated in the Supreme Court’s 1958 ruling in the Dosso case, was subsequently invoked on several occasions in Pakistan’s history to provide judicial justification for extra-constitutional changes of government, a legal approach that later Pakistani courts explicitly moved away from.
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– It was first used in the Dosso case.