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No-trust motion submitted

Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Opposition parties on Wednesday submitted to the secretary of the National Assembly a no-trust motion against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, charging him with corruption in the privatisation of public sector companies. The motion will be debated on a date to be decided by the Speaker. It has to come up not before three days and not after seven days. Mr. Aziz has said that such exercises are normal in a democracy and that he and his Government were fully prepared to face the motion. The only other no-confidence in Pakistan's parliamentary history was against Benazir Bhutto in 1989. It failed. The present motion also appears doomed with the Opposition's strength totalling 141 in the 342-member Assembly. In order to succeed, the Opposition needs to cross the half-way mark.

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