ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Senior leader Asad Qaiser has said that no-trust motion under consideration against Prime Minister and Speaker National Assembly.
According to PTI sources, the former ruling party was considering tabling no-confidence motions against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the NA speaker, in collaboration with opposition allies. during a recent meeting between incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan, his legal team, and his sisters, the idea of a no-confidence motion against the speaker was actively discussed, the well-placed sources added.
The PTI founder was briefed on the opposition alliance’s stance, including that of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai, who has publicly expressed no confidence in the current speaker. the sources further claimed that the PTI founder directed the party’s leadership and allied opposition parties to move ahead with planning the motion, giving them full authority to execute the strategy when the time was right. Party insiders also quoted the PTI founder as saying that the current government must be challenged, both inside and outside the parliament.
Talking to journalists today, Sadiq said: “Being a speaker, I take care of everyone. I am satisfied and my conduct as a speaker is clear to all.”
Even if a no-confidence motion was tabled, their own people won’t support it, he added. Opposing the idea of the no-trust motion in the backdrop of the recent Pakistan-India war, the NA speaker said that an atmosphere of national unity had been established in the prevailing situation.
Paying rich tribute to the armed forces, the NA speaker said that those who laid down their lives in the line of duty and to defend the homeland were their “real heroes”.
He maintained that they had shown the enemy that the entire nation stands united for the defence of the country