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Last Updated:May 19, 2025, 22:39 IST
The idea of a no-confidence motion was actively discussed in a meeting between PTI founder Imran Khan, his legal team, and his sisters.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. (File)
Pakistan’s opposition parties, former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its allies, are reportedly considering to bring a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.
According to the media reports citing the sources, the idea of a no-confidence motion against the speaker was actively discussed in a meeting between PTI founder Imran Khan, his legal team, and his sisters.
As per the reports, Khan was briefed on the opposition alliance’s stance, including that of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai, who has publicly expressed no confidence in Sadiq.
Khan has reportedly instructed his party’s leadership and allied opposition parties to move ahead with planning the motion, giving them full authority to execute the strategy when the time was right.
Party insiders also quoted the PTI founder as saying that the current government must be challenged — both inside and outside Parliament.
Commenting on the matter, senior PTI leader and former speaker Asad Qaiser told the media that both the leaders, Sharif and Sadiq, were being considered for no-confidence motions.
“We are keeping this option under consideration. Due to Pakistan-India tensions, we have temporarily held back. If we moved now, it might be seen as politicising a time of national crisis," he said as quoted by Daily Times.
The development comes at a time when Islamabad is in a conflict with New Delhi after the latter carried out precision strikes under ‘Operation Sindoor’ on terror infrastructures in Pakistan early on May 7 in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.
In one of the biggest attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Lashkar-linked terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists in Pahalgam on Tuesday, April 22, killing at least 26 people, including foreign tourists, and injuring many others. The Resistance Front (TRF), a Lashkar offshoot, claimed responsibility for the attack, although it later backtracked after massive global outrage.
After the attack, the diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan were downgraded with New Delhi announcing several punitive measures, including suspension of Indus Water Treaty, cutting Islamabad Mission strength, closing its airspace for Pakistani airlines and expulsion of its military attaches.
Location :Islamabad, Pakistan
First Published:News world Shehbaz Sharif In Trouble? Imran Khan’s Party May Bring No-Confidence Motion Against Pak PM
