Punjab Assembly’s deputy speaker shown the door

LAHORE:  Dost Muhammad  Mazari has been voted out from his office as deputy speaker at the Punjab Assembly in a no-trust bid against him on Saturday. 

Voting on the no-confidence motion against the Deputy Speaker began in Punjab Assembly on Friday.  The voting result was announced moments after midnight. Mazari was removed with 186 votes.

The no-trust motion was tabled against the deputy speaker by PTI following his worsening ties with the party.

Mazari was criticised by PTI Chief Imran Khan and other party leaders for his ruling against the current Chief Minister of Punjab Pervez Elahi. The ruling rejected 10 votes cast by the PML-Q, depriving Elahi of becoming the CM and instated Hamza Shahbaz as the province’s CM.

However, the setback was momentary as the Supreme Court annulled Mazari's ruling and instated the Khan-backed candidate, Elahi, as the CM.

Prior to the voting, empty ballot boxes were displayed in the House.

Meanwhile, PTI’s Sibtain Khan was elected as Punjab Assembly’s speaker earlier on Friday. He was contending against PML-N’s Saif ul Malook Khokhar, nominated as the Opposition's joint candidate