No-confidence motion tabled against Farooq Haider

Attique nominated as leader of the house
NISAR AHMED THOKAR
Islamabad, July 23: In an extraordinary but much-anticipated move, the opposition parties of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) on Friday tabled a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan.
Signed by more than a dozen legislatures, the no-confidence motion was submitted by Chaudary Aziz and Abdul Majid Khan in the Assembly Secretariat. Both the members won 2006 elections as independent candidates.
The opposition parties have put their weight behind the Muslim Conference chief Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan and he has been nominated as the new leader of the house.
Talking to Greater Kashmir, information secretary Athar Wani said that 13 cabinet ministers had also submitted their resignations to the party head Attique Ahmed Khan.
He said out of the 49-member House the opposition needs the support of 25 legislators to make the no-confidence-move a success.
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Shah Ghulam Qadir has called assembly session to take up no trust move on next Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the PaK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has termed the moving of no confidence against him as a conspiracy hatched to divide Muslims. “I will neither resign nor dissolve assembly and will face
the no-confidence motion,” he said, adding that he would convene the meeting of the parliamentary on Saturday to assess the situation.
It may be recalled here that Raja Farooq Haider Khan is the third premier in a row to face the no-confidence motion. Earlier, two prime ministers, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan and Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan were voted out of the office through successful no-confidence motions.