By IRNA,
Lahore : A no-confidence resolution was adopted against President Pervez Musharraf in the country’s biggest provincial assembly, asking to take confidence vote, state TV reported.
A total of 321 members in the 371-member Punjab Assembly voted against President Musharraf and also asked him in the approved resolution to take confidence vote from the House as he had promised in the Supreme Court, PTV reported.
Only 25 members voted against the resolution, it said.
Around 30 members of Muslim League-Q party, which backs Musharraf, also voted against him.
Although the adoption of the resolution in Punjab assembly does not have any impact on the impeachment resolution against the President but the ruling coalition says it would mount moral pressure on Musharraf to quit.
Three other provincial assemblies southern Sindh, southwest Baluchistan and North West Frontier will also pass similar resolutions before the motion is tabled in the joint sitting of the Parliament.
“Resolutions in provincial assemblies are aimed at to exert moral pressure on President Musharraf,” spokesman for the ruling Peoples Party Farhatullah Babar said.
The assembly in North West Frontier has also been summoned to meet on Tuesday to pass resolution against the President, officials said.
Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif described adoption of resolution as a historic moment in Pakistan’s history.
Earlier the resolution was moved in the house, which said that President Musharraf in his eight-year rule had brought the country at the brink of impass.
“The chapter of dictatorship has been burried for ever after the adoption of the resolution,” Sharif said.