Like a shadow government, the oppositionlink on Sunday continued to occupythe NationalAssembly link hall and heldvoting on its erstwhile dismissed no-confidence motion by the assemblychair through his ruling which the oppositionlink claimed unconstitutional.
In this symbolic exercise of the assembly proceedings, former NA SpeakerAyaz Sadiq presided over the assembly session. All oppositionlink were present in the house.Though the house was officially prorogued by Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri andall lights and mics were turned off.
However, the Opposition link MPsbaffled by the government move stayed put and continued with their‘aborted’ voting on the no-confidence motion.
Opposition link leader Shehbaz Shariflaid the no-trust motion before the house. Then the voting was held and 197MNAs cast their votes in favour of the move.
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On this occasion, Shehbaz said that an action under Article 6 would betaken against the Speaker.
The symbolic house proceedings decided to hold voting on no-trust motionagainst Speaker Asad Qaiser on April 6 so the assembly was adjourned tillApril 6.
