LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, who has recently been elected as Senator, proceeded to Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto on Tuesday to pay his respects to the party’s executed founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, assassinated prime minister Benazir Bhutto and other deceased family members at the Bhuttos’ mausoleum. A large number of party workers accompanied him.

Speaking to local reporters present there, Mr Khuhro promised to fight for the rights of Sindh on the floor of the upper house.

He expressed his confidence that the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan would succeed. He described the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government as ‘house of cards’, and claimed that it was surviving on crutches of its allies but now it had lost their confidence.

He said the PM should better resign to avoid the no-trust motion. It had become inevitable for the PTI government to quit as people were getting sick of its failure on almost all fronts, he said.

Mr Khuhro criticised PM Khan’s move of calling its supporters to D-Chowk one day before the vote, and said it was an attempt to create a confrontation-like situation and apply pressure tactics. It’s the parliament alone that would decide about the vote of no-confidence, he said.

The Speaker also, he added, did not have the authority to stop any member of the parliament from casting vote in that session. He was confident that no matter Imran Khan would hold a public meeting or assemble people close to the parliament House, the opposition had mustered the support of over 172 members and he must know this.

Published in Dawn, March 16th, 2022

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