No-trust move against Sindh PA Dy Speaker failed
From Zeeshan Mirza


KARACHI—The opposition in Sindh Assembly Monday suffered defeat on its no-confidence motion against Deputy Speaker Rahila Tiwana.
Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah announced the opposition defeat when none of the opposition members came forward to cast vote in favour of their motion.
Earlier, the Speaker had announced that voting on the motion would beheld at 4 P.M.
However, a number of opposition members said that their leader and some other members from among the movers of the motion were yet to speak. But speaker asked the Secretary of the Assembly to go ahead with the voting process.
The Assembly Secretary Hadi Bux Jatoi called the first name fromthe opposition and then from the treasury benches. But no one came forward to cast vote. Speaker Muzaffar Hussain Shah said that since no one has cast the vote, the motion is defeated and adjourned the session till September 19.
Earlier in her speech Deputy Speaker Rahila Tiwana criticized the PPP and said the party had done nothing for Sindh and that it would get much less votes in the province in the next elections.
She said when Murtaza Bhutto was assassinated and murderous attack was planned on Nusrat Bhutto she wanted to move a resolution but PPP being in power at that time would not allow her.
Rahila described President General Pervez Musharraf a revolutionary personality and said he is steering the country successfully on the path of progress and prosperity.
She said she as a student of Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah always strived to run the House according to rules and regulations in a non-partisan manner.
Earlier a number of members from the opposition and treasury benches spoke on the motion. The treasury members criticized the opposition for having a negative approach.
They said when people of Sindh were suffering because of heavy rains, the so-called champions of the cause of people were sitting in Karachi in their drawing rooms, totally unconcerned to the agonies of rain-affected population.