No-confidence motion: PTI core committee discusses current political situation

Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan chaired the meeting of his party’s core committee here on Monday.

Prime Minister Imran Khan took members into confidence about the government’s strategy on the opposition’s no-confidence motion move.

The meeting discussed the current political situation in the country.

The core committee members including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Shafqat Mehmood, Asad Umer, Asad Qaiser, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Atif Khan, Shireen Mazari, Shiekh Rasheed Ahmed, Hammad Azhar, Ali Amin Gandapur, Ali Zaidi, Amir Dogar, Imran Ismael, Ghulam Sarwar, Babar Awan, Chaudhry Sarwar, Qasim Khan Suri, Khusro Bakhtiar, Haleem Adil Sheikh, Shahbaz Gill, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, and others attended the meeting.

Governor Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Shah Farman, Chief Minister KP Mahmood Khan, and Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar attended the meeting via video link.

On the other hand, a session of joint opposition will be held at the residence of PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif today.

Former president Asif Ali Zardari, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and other leaders of opposition parties are expected to attend the meeting.

The session will consider the contacts with allies of the government and developments with regard to the opposition’s no-trust motion against the prime minister.

Shehbaz Sharif will host a dinner in the honor of the opposition politicians.

In a development, three major allies of the PTI government, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) will announce their decision on resigning or staying in the federal cabinet today.