*ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday assured Senate chairmanSadiq Sanjrani of the government’s support to thwart opposition parties’bid to move a no-confidence motion in the upper house of Parliament to ousthim.*
The assurance came during a meeting between the prime minister and theSenate chairman in Islamabad.
Leader of the House in the Senate Shibli Faraz, Federal Minister forDefence Pervez Khattak and Federal Minister for ParliamentaryAffairs Azam Khan Swati were also present on the occasion.
Sources relayed the prime minister assured that the government would try tothwart a motion of no-confidence against Sanjrani.
They quoted PM Khan as questioning the opposition to spell out if theirmove to oust the Senate chairman is democracy.
“People having self-interests are hell-bent on damaging democracy,” saidthe prime minister.
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Earlier today, the opposition’s Rehbar Committee nominated Mir HasilBizenjo as its candidate for Chairman Senate office.
After the Rehbar Committee session Akram Durrani addressing a pressconference said that the opposition parties have agreed over the name ofHasil Bizenjo and members of all opposition parties’ will vote for him.
He said that efforts will also be made to get votes from other parties.
