GILGIT: The opposition leader in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, Advocate Amjad Hussain, announced on Sunday that a no-confidence motion against GB Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid will soon be moved in the assembly.

Mr Hussain, who is the president of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) GB chapter, was speaking to his party workers.

He said it has been principally decided to submit a no-confidence motion against the GB chief minister.

He said the PPP will form a committee to discuss and finalise the motion with the leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in GB. He said the PDM’s central leadership will decide an action plan shortly.

Opposition leader in Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly claims support of some PTI lawmakers

Replying to a question, he said the opposition parties have 10 members in the 33-member GB Assembly. But, he added, some members from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and its allied party Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) have contacts with the opposition parties and showed their willingness to support the move.

The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam’s (JUI-F) member in the GB Assembly, Haji Rehmat Khaliq, said that the GB chief minister has failed in performing his duties during the last one and half years’ tenure of the government.

He said parties included in the PDM have agreed on the plan to oust the GB chief minister. He claimed that some members from the ruling PTI will also support the PDM in this regard.

The PTI has 20 members in the assembly, MWM three, PPP four, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz three and JUI-F, Balawaristan National Front-Naji Group and Islami Tehreek Pakistan have one member each.

Published in Dawn, April 11th, 2022