Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) legislators resigned en-masse from their seats in National Assembly following what they call “foreign-funded regime change.” Of 123 resignations of PTI MNAs, Speaker of National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted 11 resignations and forwarded those to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Subsequently, ECP de-notified these members and announced by-elections on vacant seats.

.Later on, PTI MNA Shakor Shad who was elected from NA-246 Karachi approached Islamabad High Court (IHC) claiming that he had not resigned from seat. Party suspended his membership for going against party line. Following this, court suspended ECP notification de-notifying PTI MNAs. Now PTI MNAs, whose resignations were accepted, have approached IHC.

Petition filed reads that resignations were purely a political move and cannot be treated as resignations in eye of law.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 06 2022

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