The pakistani prime minister imran khan
is of course trying to woo his allies in
a bid to try and ensure their support on
the floor of the parliament against the
no confidence motion
and he's doing this with massive show of
strength in islamabad today
according to sources the pakistani prime
minister met with a delegation of
mutahida kami movement
which is a key ally of the ruling
pakistan tehrika insaf on saturday
and this comes after a ptr delegation of
ministers that called on the mqm
ministers on friday the mqm remember has
been facing flak after its leaders had
held several meter meetings with the
opposition particularly
with the ppp
the mqn has a pretty tough decision to
make on its hands and its leadership is
facing a major dilemma
resources say that the party is in fact
considering to abstain from voting
during the no confidence motion that's
been brought against imran khan
rather than backing the opposition or
the government
however ahead of the national assembly
session on the no confidence motion
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pakistan people's party had announced
that the ruling coalition member will
vote in favor
to oust the pakistani prime minister
imran khan
remember on friday the pakistani foreign
minister mahmoud qureshi had tried to
contact another major ally of the ruling
party
the pakistan muslim league in davaoz and
requested for a meeting with just 24
hours now left for the no confidence
motion to be tabled imran khan's
situation appears to be pretty
precarious
as three of the four allies have already
stated their support to the opposition's
no confidence motion
so let's try and understand as to how
much weight these allies actually have
in the assembly
the mqmp has about seven seats the pml q
has five seats and the bap has about
five seats put together
that is 17 seats these three ptr allies
have been in touch with the opposition
and what is interesting is that the
opposition already has got about 162
lawmakers
they need to cross the magic number 172
to topple the imran khan government
however in a recent announcement imran
khan's aid and minister of information
favart chaudhary reportedly said
that four dissident ptr lawmakers will
return to the party ranks
and this comes after 20 members of his
own party had recently sought refuge in
the synth house in islamabad
and adding to imran khan's trouble
is that there's been report in the
pakistani media that states that nearly
about 50 ministers of the pakistan
tehrikane south party have been missing
or have not been seen in public
since the opposition has upped its ante
against imran khan
the reports further state that out of
these ministers 25 are said to be
federal and provincial advices and
special assistance while four are
ministers of the state four advisors and
19 special
assistants and last minute preparations
are underway the parade ground in
islamabad and our pakistan bureau chief
anas malik has been tracking the
developments very closely for us and he
sent us this boat take a look
in the parade ground where in
about less than 24 hours from now uh the
pakistani government or pti would be
holding a show of strength now this is
the media sales that has been made
that's right behind me and right in
front of me is the main stage that has
been set up uh there uh there is a
security sweep that's currently ongoing
um then to my left is where the
arrangements for the sound system and
lights are being made and right in front
of me uh behind these wired wires is the
general public now it's being said that
about uh five to seven thousand seats
probably ten thousand they have been uh
placed chairs that have been placed uh
but uh there are more and more people
expected to show up who would be
standing this is by all means a show of
strength the show of power that has been
that is being done by the pakistan
territory and staff in the midst of that
political crisis in order to show that
still has and enjoys the public
popularity political battle is not all
that imran khan is fighting there is a
parallel father is also ongoing in the
country's supreme court hearing a
petition filed by the attorney general
seeking the top court's opinion on
article 63a which deals with a
lawmaker's disqualification or defection
the chief justice of pakistan omar
bandhayal has said that the constitution
did not bind a lawmaker to declare his
allegiance to a political party
in court the attorney general khalid
javed khan tried to equate defection
under article 63a
with that of kayanath or dishonesty
the chief justice of pakistan observed
that khayanath was a serious offense and
that the holy quran speaks of very
serious punishment for it
the big question of course is
the will the court seek to discuss
whether the constitution speaks of
dishonesty to a political party
or to the constituents who elect the
legislators
the chief justice of pakistan has said
that the government has a good case if
they manage to establish that those who
switched their loyalty have betrayed
their voters
the five judge supreme court bench will
resume hearing the matter on the 28th of
march that's tomorrow
while the supreme court has made it
clear that it would only be passing its
interpretation of the constitution
monday will be very crucial for the
member parliament because as the
parliament gets underway literally next
door the court is likely to pass or can
possibly pass its interpretation that
would be having long term
long term ramification long term impact
on the parliamentary process in case if
somebody goes on to vote against his
party or her party's wishes vyon is now
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