ISLAMABAD May 10: The PML-Q vice president, Syed Kabir Ali Wasti, on Monday asked Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali to prove his majority in the National Assembly.

Mr Wasti, who wrote a letter to president Gen Pervez Musharraf against the premier last month, said in a statement that "showing majority by him (Mr Jamali) was a must to continue in the office particularly after expression of a clear-cut no-confidence in him by a majority of the ruling party parliamentarians in Lahore meeting on Sunday.

He demanded of the President to invoke article 91(5) of the Constitution to ask the prime minister about seeking vote of confidence from the lower House. He stressed that in case of failure, Mr Jamali should resign from his office immediately enabling the majority PML-Q to elect new leader of the house and prime minister.

Mr Wasti recalled that the party had elected Jamali as premier when his name was proposed by the party president and parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.