NA Secretariat declares no-trust motion by the book

ISLAMABAD, March 13: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has been advised to call the session to take up the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan on March 17 or 18. The National Assembly Secretariat has declared the no-trust motion submitted by the opposition parties, according to the rules, after its scrutiny. The NA secretariat ascertained the genuineness of all the signatures on the requisition and the no-confidence motion submitted by the opposition and did not find any of them dubious or against the rules. The NA Secretariat after completing its procedure forwarded the file to Speaker Asad Qaiser proposing to call a session on any day before March 22 most suitable is March 17 or 18. As per details, the NA Secretariat has completed its verification of the signatures of the opposition parties’ members on the no-trust motion as well as the requisition notice for the assembly session, according to sources. “No signatures found suspected or out of signs of rolls,” sources said. “The legislation department of the National Assembly has completed its process and forwarded the file to the Speaker,” according to sources. “It has been recommended to speaker to summon the assembly session any day before March 22,” sources said. “Summoning the session is a constitutional obligation, which could not be deviated,” NA sources further said. “The first phase was the requisition and the second phase verification of the signatures on the no-trust motion,” sources added. – TLTP