PESHAWAR – Awami National Party (ANP) parliamentary leader in theKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly Sardar Hussain Babak has written to theK-P Governor Engineer Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, requesting him to ask theprovincial Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to seek a vote-of-confidence fromthe K-P assembly under Article-130 (7) of the Constitution.

“Not only the members of the assembly but also the people of the provincewill be thankful to you for fulfilling this constitutional need,” Babakstated in his letter, adding that the chief minister does not have thesupport of enough members to hold office.

“This house had elected the chief minister, speaker and deputy speaker in2013. But unfortunately, due to their flawed policies, they pushed theprovince into trouble and took it to the brink of bankruptcy,” the letterread, adding, “The chief minister has lost support in the assembly to holdhis office.”

Jhagra has already summoned a session of the provincial assembly for May 3(today).