The fallout from Pakistan’s recent vote of no-confidence – that saw Imran Khan ousted in favour of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif – has seen the nuclear-armed nation edge toward civil war.

In Islamabad, protesters have spent days setting trees on fire (where is the United Nations Climate Change committee when you need them?) along with dozens of vehicles with the intention of paralysing Pakistan’s capital city which emerged this morning shrouded in smoke.