Staff Report
Islamabad: Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that no opposition member would attend the National Assembly session scheduled for Saturday, in which Prime Minister Imran Khan will seek a vote of confidence. The announcement from the chief of the 10-party opposition alliance comes a day after the premier delivered an address to the nation, explaining why he was seeking a vote of confidence in the wake of the Senate elections in which the opposition managed to stage an upset.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Rehman said that Yousuf Raza Gilani’s victory was itself a no-confidence motion against the premier. He claimed that President Arif Alvi in his summary to summon Saturday’s session had essentially stated that Prime Minister Imran had “lost the trust of the majority” and he, therefore, needed to seek a vote of confidence.
“So when the president talks about losing trust to call the session of the National Assembly, then this further strengthens the stance of the opposition,” he said. After the opposition’s boycott of the session, Rehman said, “this session will have no political importance” and the PTI government “will not be considered the representative government of this nation”.
