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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Secretariat has stated that the opposition’s no-trust motion against the chief minister will be reviewed on Monday, ARY News reported on Friday.
The spokesperson of the KP Assembly Secretariat said that the no-trust motion against CM Mahmood Khan will be effective from Monday. The office timing of the Secretariat was ended at 1:00 pm today while the no-trust motion was submitted by the opposition lawmakers at 5:45 pm.
The secretariat will now review the legal aspects of the no-trust motion against KP CM on Monday. After scrutinising the legal aspects, the speaker of the provincial assembly will be consulted by the concerned officials.
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The KP Assembly Secretariat stated that the voting on the no-trust move against KP CM Mahmood Khan will not be possible before May 10 after the scrutiny of the legal matters.
No-confidence motion in KP AssemblyEarlier in the day, the opposition submitted a similar motion against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan after the submission of a no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Punjab.
Awami National Party (ANP) MPA Hussain Babab and other members of the provincial assembly belonging to opposition parties submitted the no-trust motion against the chief minister in the assembly secretariat.
Addressing a press conference earlier, the PPP provincial president said the opposition parties including JUI-F, ANP and PPP were on the same page and would bring a no-confidence motion to oust the PTI-led KP government.
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“At least, 45 MPAs from the PTI are in contact with the opposition parties,” he claimed, adding that the motion would be submitted in the KP Assembly after voting on the trust-move against PM Imran Khan in Parliament.
The National Assembly session for voting on the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan will take place tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:30 am in line with the Supreme Court’s judgment.
On Thursday, a five-judge larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, passed a unanimous judgement that declared the events of April 3, including the NA deputy speaker’s ruling on the no-trust motion and the subsequent dissolution of the assembly, to be contrary to the constitution and of no legal effect.