BANNU:The opposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has taken back its no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Mehmood Khan on the assurance of the provincial government that it will not dissolve the assembly.
The opposition leaders belonging to the Awami National Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz who reached the provincial assembly for today’s (Monday) session going to be started at 1pm told the media that they had withdrawn no-trust motion against KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan that was submitted to the assembly secretariat on Friday.
ANP parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak said that the joint opposition did not want to topple the provincial government. The purpose of submission of the no-trust motion against the chief minister was to stop him from dissolving the assembly, he explained.
But since the provincial government has assured the opposition that the assembly will not be dissolved, the opposition is taking back its no-confidence motion, Babak added. The opposition leaders had contacted the assembly secretariat requesting it to withdraw the motion. They further said that no-trust motion would not be on assembly’s agenda today.
Babak said during previous Imran-led government in Centre, the province was deprived of its rights but hoped that the KP government would now strive to get these rights. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was due to take up a no-confidence motion against its Chief Minister Mehmood Khan in its today’s sitting.