No-trust resolution submitted against NA Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri

Islamabad: After a series of no-confidence motions, the joint Opposition submitted a no-confidence resolution against National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri on Friday.

The motion was moved a day before voting on a no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to happen.

PML-N MNA Murtaza Javed Abbasi submitted resolution to the Secretary of the National Assembly Secretariat.

Per the resolution, the deputy speaker had "repeatedly violated the rules, parliamentary practices, democratic norms and traditions, and even Constitutional provisions and when presiding over the House, failed to conduct proceedings in an orderly manner to enable productive debate on issues of public importance".

After the opposition submitted a no-confidence resolution against Speaker Asad Qaiser on April 3, Suri had presided over the NA session.

Minutes after the session began, the deputy speaker had dismissed the no-trust resolution against PM Imran terming it contradictory to Article 5 of the Constitution.

In the no-confidence resolution submitted against Suri today, Abbasi stated that instead of performing his role fairly and impartially, the deputy speaker acted in a "blatantly partisan manner" that had favoured the government and frequently deprived the opposition of their right to voice their views and the views of their electorates.

Referring to Suri's decision to dismiss the no-trust move against the prime minister, the resolution stated that the deputy speaker "wilfully and mala fidely subverted the Constitution" and his actions fell under the purview of Article 6, which is related to treason.