Islamabad: Soon after National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser adjourned the session without taking up the matter of no-trust vote, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Friday that Prime Minister Imran Khan was running away from the no-confidence motion.
“What kind of a captain runs away from contest?” he said while talking to the media outside the Parliament building.
He claimed that the NA speaker was a facilitator of Imran Khan and that’s why he avioded taking up the no-confidence motion. “In the name of tradition, he is trying to protect Imran Khan,” he added.
Bilawal said that in June 2012, PPP’s member National Assembly Fauzia Wahab had passed away and a new prime minister had to be elected, but his party had fulfilled its constitutional responsibility.
The PPP chief also took to Twitter to censure the government’s move.
“Speaker provided another weak excuses to avoid tabling no-confidence motion in National Assembly today. Imran can’t run forever. PM has no sportsman sprit and cannot face defeat with grace. The once great Kaptaan will go down like a rat on a sinking ship,” he wrote on his official handle.
This government, he said, wanted to spread terror first by attacking Parliament Lodges and then the Sindh House. The government wanted to run away from the no-confidence motion but the opposition was united and will not let this “selected person” escape. “How long will the selected be able to avoid the no-confidence? We will use the democratic weapon of no-confidence against this undemocratic person, Imran Khan.”
The PPP chief also felicitated the people of Pakistan who he claimed rejected the “selected”. Imran Khan’s government has ended and soon he will be a former prime minister, he remarked.
Responding to a question, Bilawal said that the prime minister and the NA speaker were both undemocratic. “We are resisting all these undemocratic forces with democracy. Insha Allah, the next prime minister will be an elected prime minister. Neutrality is still continued and our long term struggle has been for this neutrality. This no-confidence is also a part of the same struggle.”
Earlier on arrival at the parliament house former president PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, while speaking to the media, hoped that things will be better. He said that if the speaker did not allow tabling the no-confidence motion then we will protest. He said that the allies can form a government with the opposition. He said that he is 100% confident that the no-confidence will be successful.
Speaking on the occasion, Bilawal said that “everyone knows that victory is ours”. “We had total members of opposition. We will request for production order of Ali Wazir. The victory and defeat are as per Allah’s will but our preparations are complete. You will see what we do.”
Afterwards Zardari and and his son Bilawal attended the joint meeting of opposition members. All the opposition members were in attendance. The members were given important instructions regarding the session.
The PPP chairman also met an independent member National Assembly, Ali Nawaz Shah in the opposition lobby. Shah assured Bilawal of his support on no-confidence motion, according to a party statement. –Agencies
