Punjab Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi called off a crucial assembly session on Thursday, meant to take up a no-trust resolution against its Deputy Speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari, half an hour before it was supposed to begin . The session has been postponed till May 16.
On April 6, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had submitted the motion against Mazari, days after the deputy speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Suri had dismissed a no-confidence resolution filed by the opposition against former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered Punjab Governor Omar Sarfaraz Cheema to swear in Hamza Shehbaz as chief minister of the province by Thursday (today).
In its verdict on a petition filed by Hamza, LHC Chief Justice Ameer Bhatti directed the governor to administer the oath to the newly-elected CM, or appoint an official to complete the task.
During the hearing, the court said the province was being run without a chief minister for 25 days, and delays in administering the oath to the CM-elect was against the constitution.
