Govt expedites efforts to woo allies on no-confidence Motion
LAHORE, March 26 (SABAH):Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) led government has expedited efforts to woo allies on no-confidence Motionagainst PM Imran Khan.
A high level PTI delegation has called on Chaudhry brothers of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) as voting on no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan nears.
The delegation consisting of Foreign Minister Shah MahmoodQureshi and Defense Minister PervaizKhattak has met leadership of PML-Q in a bid to address reservations of the government ally.
The ministers also conveyed a special message of PM Imran Khan other than discussing rapidly evolving political situation.
PML-Q’s ChaudhryPervaizElahi, in an informal conversation with the journalists, said that politics of rallies does not affect no-confidence motion in anyway and warned that future of elements who use religion for politics is bleak.
He, however, said that future of PML-Q is bright and added that political uncertainty in the country will continue for now.
A day earlier, Shah MehmoodQureshi also held a telephone conversation with PML-Q leader and Speaker Punjab Assembly ChaudhryPervaizElahi.Qureshi, Asad Umar and Khattak also met a delegation of MuttahidaQaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Friday.
It merits mention that opposition seeks to throw Khan out after rallying thousands of people on a campaign that he has mismanaged the economy, governance and foreign policy.
No Pakistani prime minister has ever completed his term in office.
The joint opposition consists of major parties such as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and JUI-F of former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto – and has a strength of nearly 163 in the lower house.
It needs a simple majority of 172 to prevail in the no-confidence vote.