LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has taken a big U-turn as it withdrawn the no-confidence motions against Punjab Assembly (PA) Speaker Sibtain Khan and Deputy Speaker Wasiq Abbasi.

Sources said that the PML-N had taken back the no-trust moves to avoid embarrassment as it lacks required numbers of MPAs to make motions successful.

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its ally Pakistan Muslim league-Q (PML-Q) has a clear lead in the Punjab Assembly.

Former president Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N have left no stone unturned to defeat the PTI government in Punjab but their efforts proved in vain. They tried hard to lure the PTI and PML-Q MPAs but failed in their bids.

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Seeing their failure, the PML-N withdrew their motions in the name of strategy’s change.

It is pertinent to mention here that the PML-N had taken back its no-confidence motion against the Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.

The sources that the PML-N had now turned its full focus towards to vote of confidence against the Punjab chief minister.

On Sunday (Jan 1) Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and co-chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari held a telephonic conversation.

Sources privy to the development reveal both bigwigs talked over the current political predicament of Punjab while the issue of the expected vote of confidence of chief minister Pervaiz Elahi was also discussed.

Earlier, members of the Punjab Assembly (MPAs) Chaudhary Ashraf Ali Ansari and Malik Ghulam Qasim Hunjra on Sunday separately called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.

The ongoing political crisis in Punjab has led to parties gathering their workers and in this regard both MPAs came to the Prime Minister’s office.

There is an expected vote of confidence to be taken by the Punjab chief minister and the PML-N leader is meeting its party members to give the tough time to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Muslim League-Q.

“During the meetings, the political situation in Punjab province was discussed,” PM Office Media Wing said in a press release.