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| Durrani advises governor to dissolve NWFP Assembly |
| 2007-10-09 |
| NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Monday advised the governor to dissolve the provincial assembly in view of the current situation in the country. “I advise the governor under Article 112 (1) of the Constitution to immediately dissolve the assembly in view of the prevailing situation,” Durrani told the media after the prorogation of the assembly session. Durrani said that it was his desire that the governor dissolve the assembly by Monday evening, “or the assembly will automatically stand dissolved within 48 hours”. Durrani said he was not interested in joining a caretaker government, and defended JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s role in the country’s politics, saying that Fazl was a farsighted leader who did not make emotional decisions. He denied allegations that the JUI-F helped Gen Musharraf in his re-election. He said the speaker was asked to relax assembly rules when a no-confidence resolution against him (Durrani) was submitted “to enable me to dissolve the assembly on October 5, but he did not”. Just before Durrani advised the governor to dissolve the assembly, Speaker Bakht Jehan, against whom the JUI-F members planned to move a no-confidence resolution, resigned from his office. Jehan told the house that the JI provincial executive committee had directed him on Sunday to resign from the office. “In view of the JI executive committee decision, I’ll submit my resignation to the governor after the prorogation of the session,” he said. In his resignation, Jehan said that there was unrest in the country in the wake of the re-election of Gen Musharraf, and a large number of national and provincial assemblies’ members had resigned. “There is a great burden on my conscience because I am an active member of the JI. It does not warrant me to remain in the office anymore as other members of the party have tendered their resignations,” said the speaker. |
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