ISLAMABAD: Dissident Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Ahmed Hussain Dehr on Friday said that he supports Prime Minister Imran Khan in the no-trust move, days after joining hands with the Opposition.
Talking to journalists at Parliament House, Malik Ahmad said that he had some issues which the government is currently resolving. In response to a question about where he stood on the no-trust vote, said, “God willing, I am with the government.”
Dehr acknowledged that he had met Prime Minister Imran, saying, “I have some issues that the prime minister will solve. They are being solved and after that, I will support him.”
“I am still part of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and will support the prime minister,” he said, adding that he will quit politics if government did not fulfil his demands but won’t join the opposition camp.
Dehr was one of the dissident PTI MNAs, allegedly found staying at the Sindh House in Islamabad earlier this month. The revelation had come a day after Prime Minister Imran and some cabinet ministers accused the opposition of indulging in horse-trading ahead of the crucial vote on the no confidence resolution.
Earlier, Dehr had criticised the premier and Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. “I was disappointed to see that PM Imran himself was meeting PML-N dissident MPAs in Lahore to get their support,” he had said.
Answering a question about how much money he had been offered to vote against the prime minister, the MNA had asked a counter-question that the PM should tell how much money he had offered to the four PML-N MPAs whom he met in Lahore.
Dehr had also leveled allegations of corruption against CM Buzdar, saying that he himself had given bribe at the CM secretariat to get his job done. Asserting that he could prove the bribe case before the PM, he also threw an open challenge to the premier saying, “the PM should resign if I prove corruption at CM Secretariat. I will resign and even leave politics if I fail to prove corruption.”
The government has also filed a presidential reference in the Supreme Court, seeking its opinion on whether the votes of dissident MNAs can be counted and whether there disqualification on grounds of defection under Article 63-A of the Constitution will be permanent.
