PM IMRAN WOULD FIGHT TILL END BUT WON’T OFFER MONEY, MINISTRIES TO SAVE GOVT

Fri 18 March 2022:

The Opposition’s no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan has divided Islamabad; however, this is not the first time that the premier has faced such a motion.

In the March 2021 Senate elections, Yousuf Raza Gilani defeated the government’s candidate former finance advisor Abdul Hafeez Sheikh in the National Assembly for the Islamabad general seat.

After the defeat, the premier had voluntarily decided to put himself for a no-confidence motion in the National Assembly.

The premier had made the move as many lawmakers from the Treasury benches had voted for Gilani in the Senate elections.

Back then, the premier had openly invited his MNAs to vote against him if they did not have faith in his leadership.

“I will take confidence motion the day after tomorrow. I am going to the assembly. I am telling my assembly you tell openly because voting would be in open. I am telling my MNAs, this is your democratic right. You can say you are not with Imran Khan, I will respect you,” the premier had said in a televised address to the nation.

PM Imran had also said that if his party lawmakers raise their hand and say it openly that he’s “incompetent” then he would go in the Opposition.

PM Imran would fight till end but won’t offer money, ministries to save govt

Hours after several dissenting MNAs of the PTI were found staying at Sindh House in a clear indication that they would go against their party in the upcoming no-trust move, a trio of key government ministers held a press conference in Islamabad, saying that Prime Minister Imran Khan could also throw money at opposition lawmakers but would not do so as he does not stand for “politics of blackmailing and bribery”.

“Imran Khan does not do politics for himself but for the nation,” said Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar as Energy Minister Hammad Azhar and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry sat by his side. “There is no personal interest of his and that is why he neither blackmails anyone nor gets blackmailed.”

“He has never done this sort of politics and will never do it in the future. Nobody should have any doubt that PTI will fight till the end but the only difference is that what we will do will be within the ambit of law and Constitution.

“We will not do any thing illegal,” he added.

“The entire nation is seeing that they (the opposition) only use the name of democracy under the garb of which they mean to do business.”

Energy Minister Hammad Azhar said: “The nation saw that this is the system against which Imran Khan took a stand. This is the system of horse trading, bribery, and auctions to the tune of 200m and 400m.

“We want to make it clear that we will not do any deals and will not disburse ministries to stay in power. We will remain engaged with our allies but there will be no wheeling and dealing.”

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