26 October 2004	Tuesday	11 Ramazan 1425

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Secretary Information of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Taj Haider has said the government's strategy to restrain its members from voting on the no-confidence motion against the National Assembly speaker has once again highlighted the crisis of confidence and anarchy in the ranks of the establishment and its supporters.

It is quite clear that the members were stopped from voting on the motion to prevent them from casting their votes against the speaker, he said.

Taj Haider said the democratic opposition could not have resorted to horse-trading, as is done by the establishment. Any member voting against the speaker would have done so out of his free will, which the government has suppressed by asking its members to abstain from voting.

From late Moulvi Tameezuddin till date Chaudhry Amir Hussain remains the only Speaker of National Assembly who does not trust his own party members and in whom the entire opposition has no trust, he said.

Never before a speaker had so trivialized the House and in turn was so much ridiculed by the members across the board, he said and added that any self-respecting person in such a situation would call it a day. He said crisis of confidence was also manifested from the fact that for the first time an army chief was hounded by dark and unknown shadows.