ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister and senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has stated that a no-confidence motion against the ruling PTI will be presented as soon as the required number of votes is obtained.
The PML-N leader told the reporters in the federal capital that the no-trust motion was a component of parliamentary democracy.
“In our system, there is an unconstitutional intervention,” he remarked.
“The government will return home within 24 hours after the crutches are removed,” he continued.
“The PTI has twenty-two MNAs who do not want to be part of the party. The country is on the verge of collapse, and the only way out is for fair and fast elections.”
In response to a question, the former premier said his party was still in contact with the PPP. “We are unified for Pakistan’s future.”
The PML-N and the PPP decided on Saturday to work together and utilise every option available to depose the PTI-led government, with the former promising to consider the latter’s offer of filing a no-confidence resolution in parliament.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his father, former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, were invited to lunch at PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif’s mansion in Model Town, Lahore.
The PML-N side told the PPP that it would take its no-trust proposal to its central executive committee meeting and then, with Nawaz Sharif’s agreement, to the PDM platform to gain broader support for the measure.
Shehbaz then told the media, backed by Bilawal and Maryam, among other meeting participants, that the PML-N and the PPP had agreed on a same agenda of working together to send the PTI-led government home.
“Every political party has its own platform and strategy. Political parties should, however, work together in times of acute crises for the common good,” he stressed.
With people’s livelihoods in jeopardy, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly stated that history would not forgive them if they did not join together now and agree on a single objective to play a responsible role.
