No-trust vote against Imran Khan will follow Constitution rules: Speaker

 Over the no-trust motion against Pakistan PM Imran Khan, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser said that he would run the assembly’s proceedings in accordance with the Constitution.

After opposition parties levelled allegations against Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser for siding with Prime Minister Imran Khan over the no-trust motion, Qaiser in his defence said that he would run the assembly’s proceedings in accordance with the Constitution. /Taking to Twitter, Qaiser wrote: “I, as the custodian of the National Assembly of Pakistan, will fulfil my constitutional obligations and will proceed in accordance with Article 95 of the Constitution and rule 37 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly, 2007,” reported Geo TV.

In conversation with media in Islamabad, the speaker had said, “I will follow the law; I am still in consultation with the NA secretariat about summoning the session and it will be called in line with the constitution.” Pakistan Opposition leaders on Monday slammed the National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser for “violating” the Constitution for delaying in conducting voting on no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pak PM Imran Khan blames US for deteriorating situation in Afghanistan

 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has blamed the United States for creating a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan that is affecting millions of people and allowing it to worsen.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has blamed the United States for creating a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan that is affecting millions of people and allowing it to worsen. “A man-made crisis is being created despite knowing that it can be averted if (Afghanistan’s) accounts (in the US) are unfrozen and liquidity is put into their banking system,” the Prime Minister said, Dawn newspaper reported.

The Prime Minister made these remarks at a ceremony held at Foreign Office to celebrate the successful holding of the extraordinary session of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers on Tuesday. On the other hand, amid the deteriorating economic situation in Afghanistan, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday (local time) said that Washington is looking intensely at ways to put more liquidity into the Afghan economy so as to provide money to the people of the cash-strapped nation….