No Trust move against Senate Chairman in offing by PMLN: Sources
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ISLAMABAD - The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the single-largest majority party in the Senate, is preparing for a no-trust move against the Senate chairman to remove him.
However PTI has said that it will resist any such move with full force.
PTI lawmaker said that such move would be “uncalled for and violation of law, norms, rules and Constitution.”
The PTI also said that it fully and unconditionally supported the Senate chairman and any such move would be defeated with a bigger majority.
PTI Senator Azam Khan Swati, who is also a candidate of leader of the opposition in the Senate, in a statement said the Senate chairman had been duly elected by majority of senators under the Constitution of Pakistan.
“There is no such provision to bring a no-trust motion against him,” he said, adding this would be uncalled for and a violation of law, norms, rules and Constitution—a claim that he rebutted in his statement as well.
“Anyone trying to tarnish the image of this sacred democratic institution will be taken to task. Under Article 53(7)(c), one can only bring a resolution against chairman Senate in the Senate to be removed by the majority of members,” Swati said.
He said the PTI regardless of the political party’s affiliation would defend honour and dignity of Upper House of the Parliament, and of chairman Senate and “will not make him a laughing stock and any such move with nefarious design will be defeated on the floor of the House.”
The opposition parties’ supported candidate Sadiq Sanjrani, now Senate chairman, defeated the PML-N candidate Senator Raja Zafarul Haq in March 12 Senate elections.
