Shehbaz, Zardari, Fazl optimistic about success of no-confidence motion
Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
After a long deliberation and consultation, the entire opposition parties on Tuesday submitted no-confidence motion against prime minister Imran Khan with national assembly secretariat.
A group of senior opposition lawmakers including Rana Sanaullah, Ayaz Sadiq, Shazia Marri and Marriyum Aurangzeb submitted the motion.
Maryam Aurangzeb of PML-N said that National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser was not present in his office which is why the document was submitted with the secretariat. In order to make the no-confidence motion against the prime minister successful, the joint opposition requires the support of 172 MNAs.
According to Article 54 of the Constitution, the NA speaker has a maximum of 14 days to summon a session of the house following the requisition.
Meanwhile, the three leaders of joint Opposition, Leader of Opposition in NA and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, former president and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chairman Moulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday said that they were hopeful that the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan will be successful and more than 172 members will vote in favour of the move.
PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif said that a consultation of the joint opposition was held yesterday in which it was decided that no-confidence motion against PM Imran would be submitted in the National Assembly today.
He said, “We kept this as a secret and everyone obeyed it, today all the parties signed the requisition and no-confidence motion with their members and today we have submitted it.”
He said that the PTI government has destroyed the economy, while inflation and unemployment has increased immensely, adding that today everyone is fed up with inflation and unemployment and the government has mortgaged our generations by taking loans.
The present government while failing on the foreign front tried to make the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) controversial, he said.
Shehbaz Sharif went on to say that Prime Minister Imran Khan has also angered European countries during his recent speech. “We have not made decisions for personal gain but for the people of Pakistan,” he said and added it was totally wrong to say that external conspiracies were being hatched against the PM.
The government took the worst revenge in the name of accountability, he added. Speaking on the occasion, former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari claimed that no-confidence motion against PM Imran Khan to get the support of more than 172 MNAs.
Asif Ali Zardari said that the no-confidence motion has been moved by the joint opposition after reaching a consensus that no party single-handedly steer the country out of crises.
Replying to a journalist’s question about the missing of opposition members in the recent legislation in the Senate, Asif Ali Zardari claimed that more than 172 members will support the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan and went on to say do you want me to tell the names of MNAs who are supporting us? “We will have to work together.
We will also invite those friends who are at a distance from us,” he said. Taking questions from journalists, Zardari said that opposition will bag more votes than the required number of 172 in support of the no-confidence motion. He said the president now does not have power to dissolve the National Assembly.
