RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Sunday said that the potential no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan will fail, adding that over two dozen lawmakers from the opposition benches will not support it.
Talking to journalists in Rawalpindi, the minister said if the opposition wanted to bring a no-trust move against PM Imran Khan with the help of these members – who didn’t vote against mini-budget in NA – then it should be ready to lose around 26 votes from its side.
He said that the in-house change will not happen and the premier will complete his five-year term. According to Rashid, after April, the government will present a “friendly budget”, saying the next three months were very important.
He also said that the government was fully prepared to handle the long marches to be taken out by the anti-government alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in March and February, respectively.
Rashid said that he didn’t believe these protests will give the government a “tough time” as this was not the first time the opposition was marching on Islamabad. “The government will block the entry points to the federal capital due to the march if the opposition tried to take the law into their hands,” he added.
Speaking about the deaths in Murree due to a blizzard, Rashid claimed that had he not gone to the resort town, “30-40 people would have died” due to a lack of facilities in the hill station. According to Rashid, he spent two days in Murree to rescue the stranded tourists even though this was not the job of the interior ministry.
He also criticised former premier Nawaz Sharif for going to London, saying that Nawaz spent more time on efforts to escape to London than to oust Imran Khan’s government.
