KP CM Mehmood Khan wins assembly’s confidence vote 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mehmood Khan on Monday won the vote of no-confidence, as the resolution in favour of the CM passed by the majority, reported 24NewsHD TV channel. 

Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education, Shahram Khan Tarakai said that the opposition in KP has faced defeat. Shahram said that CM Mehmood has proved by taking 88 votes that the opposition could not entice the masses of KP.

Tarakai claimed that the opposition has taken back the no-confidence motion against CM, considering its defeat, adding that the KP government itself presented the motion and asked to hold a vote of confidence.

اپوزیشن نے کے پی میں منہ کھائی ہے ۔ سی ایم نے 88 ووٹ لے کر ثابت کیا کہ کے پی کی عوام کو آپ ورغلا نہیں سکتے۔ اپوزیشن نے عدم اعتماد کی تحریک اپنی ہار دیکھتے ہوئے واپس لے لی مگر حکومت نے خود تحریک پیش کی کہ عدم اعتماد پر ووٹنگ کروائی جائے ۔ pic.twitter.com/Q6lqcDgowm

— Shahram Khan Tarakai (@ShahramKTarakai) April 11, 2022

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The opposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has taken back its no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Mehmood Khan on the assurance of the provincial government that it will not dissolve the assembly.

The opposition leaders belonging to the Awami National Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz who reached the provincial assembly for today’s (Monday) session going to be started at 1pm told the media that they had withdrawn no-trust motion against KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan that was submitted to the assembly secretariat on Friday. 

ANP parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak said that the joint opposition did not want to topple the provincial government. The purpose of submission of the no-trust motion against the chief minister was to stop him from dissolving the assembly, he explained. 

But since the provincial government has assured the opposition that the assembly will not be dissolved, the opposition is taking back its no-confidence motion, Babak added.

The opposition leaders had contacted the assembly secretariat requesting it to withdraw the motion. They further said that no-trust motion would not be on assembly’s agenda today. 

Babak said during previous Imran-led government in Centre, the province was deprived of its rights but hoped that the KP government would now strive to get these rights. 

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was due to take up a no-confidence motion against its Chief Minister Mehmood Khan in its today’s sitting.

Reporter: Syed Azmat