LAHORE: Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), said on Thursday that Prime Minister Imran Khan was “not worried at all” about a possible no-confidence move against him by the opposition.
Pervaiz, who was speaking to the media in Lahore, made this remark in response to a reporter’s question referring to a statement by his son, Water Resources Minister Moonis Elahi, regarding the opposition stepping up efforts and approaching PML-Q leaders to seek their support for tabling a no-confidence motion against the prime minister.
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After Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an anti-government alliance of opposition parties, announced on February 11 that they would be tabling a no-confidence motion against the government, multiple leaders from opposition parties have been holding meetings with PML-Q’s Elahi and his brother, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.
The PML-Q, which is an ally of the PTI government in the Centre and Punjab, has assumed much more importance since opposition parties stepped up efforts to dislodge the government through a no-trust move. In order for such a move to succeed, the opposition would require PML-Q’s votes in the National Assembly.
In a notable development on this front, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif had approached Shujaat for the first time in 14 years earlier this month.
However, Prime Minister Imran Khan had said a day later that Moonis had conveyed to the PTI that “We shouldn’t worry about the meetings.”
The premier had said this while addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, where Moonis was also present.
