ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has asserted that Prime Minister Imran Khan did not earn the vote of confidence, but was ‘handed’ the same by the ‘institutions’.
Talking to journalists in Islamabad today (Tuesday), the former premier admitted that horse-trading did take place during Senate’s polls. “However, all limits were crossed during the bid to gain the vote of confidence,” he added.
“The premier did not earn the vote but he was handed over the vote by the institutions,” he added, but did not specify the institutions. Khaqan Abbasi informed that he was contemplating writing to the Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) who had earlier denied any hand in politics.
Referring to the media talk outside parliament lodges on March 6, he said, “Are we going to have to be armed during our pressers? Are they going to run the country on such values? What happened during Senate’s polls wasn’t very encouraging.”
The lower house of parliament reaffirmed its confidence in Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday by overwhelmingly voting in his favour. Imran Khan polled 178 votes in a National Assembly session specifically convened for the purpose by the president but boycotted by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
