SHEIKHUPURA, July 30: District Nazim Mian Jalil Ahmad Sharaqpuri succumbed to a no-confidence motion here on Wednesday.

Of the 143 house members, 113 took part in the voting, 102 voted against Sharaqpuri and 11 in his favour.

Sharaqpuri recently quit the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and joined the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Before joining the PPP, he contacted the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership to save his nazimship, but he was given a cold shoulder.

Sharaqpuri won the 2002 general election from NA-132 from the PML-N platform by defeating former PML-Q president Mian Muhammad Azhar with a huge margin.

He vacated his seat in 2003, contested the election for the district nazim under the PML-Q umbrella and won.

On Wednesday, when the returning officer, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Azam, announced the no-trust motion result, PML-N activists rocked the district assembly with ‘Go Musharraf go’ slogans. Sharaqpuri and his supporters quietly left the district assembly premises.

Later, Sharaqpuri told this correspondent that the Lahore High Court (LHC) had stayed the no-trust motion result. He said that announcement of the result by the returning officer was “unlawful”.

PROTEST: The Anjuman-i-Patwarian, Ferozewala tehsil, on Wednesday took out a rally against the deputy district officer for revenue and demanded his immediate suspension from service.

The protesters, led by anjuman president Mushtaq Ghacha, Secretary General Malik Tahir Bashir and Senior Vice President Rai Javed, accused the revenue official of misbehaviour and corruption.

They said DDOR Tariq Mehmood Chaudhry treated them inhumanely. They called for an investigation into his corruption.