Tag: no confidence motion
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PTI govt in Azad Kashmir gone, as region gets PDM-backed PM
Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)-backed Chaudhry Anwarul Haq has been elected unopposed as the 15th Prime Minister (PM) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Haq won with a comfortable majority of 31 votes in the 52-strong Legislative Assembly in the wee hours of Thursday. Initially, the session was convened at 2pm on Wednesday, however, it got…
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‘It was military vs PTI’: Gen Bajwa was actively involved in sending PTI govt packing, says Fawad
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry has said that in the no-confidence motion against his party’s Chairman and then-Prime Minister Imran Khan, it was actually the PTI versus the military. Fawad claimed during a BBC HARDTalk interview yesterday that “some army generals, as well as ex-chief General [Qamar Javed] Bajwa were actively involved in sending…
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Resign, Khan tells his Punjab MPAs, if Punjab Assembly dissolution doesn’t go his way
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has given instructions that if his desired dissolution of the Punjab Assembly (PA) is halted, all of his party’s Members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) will resign, reports Geo News. According to news outlet sources, PTI has prepared a new strategy to deal with the political crisis in Punjab.…
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Stab in the back? PTI, PML-Q’s MPAs contact PML-N’s Opposition ahead of no-confidence against CM Elahi
Several members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have approached the Opposition in Punjab Assembly ahead of the no-confidence session against Chief Minister (CM) Pervaiz Elahi, reports ARY News. According to the news outlet, a total of 11 lawmakers contacted the Opposition and they reportedly planned to…
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‘No difference between Hamza Shehbaz and Bilawal for me’: Zardari
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that he does not see any difference between his son, Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shehbaz. In a statement, he said that after Pervaiz Elahi is removed from the post of chief minister of…
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‘Elahi has lost confidence’: No trust-motion submitted against Punjab CM
The Opposition in Punjab Assembly (PA) submitted a no-confidence motion against Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in the late hours of Monday. The magic number required to show majority in the assembly is 186 with Elahi seemingly ahead in numbers. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has the support of 180 members while Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid…
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VONC against Pervez Elahi might be moved today
The opposition in Punjab Assembly will likely use two options on Thursday to stop the assembly from being dissolved, Jang has reported. According to details, chances are that the Governor of Punjab will today ask Pervez Elahi to take a Vote of Confidence. Simultaneously, a motion for a Vote of No Confidence will be submitted…
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‘No-confidence motion ka jisy shoq hai woh le aye’: CM Punjab
Chief Minister (CM) of Punjab, Pervaiz Elahi, taking a jibe at the Opposition, said on Tuesday, “No-confidence motion ka jisy shoq hai woh le aye” (whoever wants a no-confidence motion can bring it on). Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) including its Chairman Shakeel Masood Hussain and others, Elahi reiterated that he…
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‘There has never been truth to foreign conspiracy’: US on Khan’s allegations
The United States (US) has once again reiterated that there has never been any truth to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s allegations of Washington DC orchestrating a regime change conspiracy to oust his government. “As we’ve previously said, there has — there is not and there has never been truth to these allegations, but…
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‘Imran Khan insists that armed forces should bring him back into power’: Bilawal
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that former Prime Minister Imran Khan insists that the armed forces should bring him back to power. “He [Imran Khan] doesn’t say how dare you remove me through a democratic means. He insists that the army, armed forces and intelligence agency should intervene to bring him back into power,”…