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Pakistan’s parliament summons PTI MPs for verification of resignations

Friday, 23 December 2022 2:47 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 23 December 2022 2:54 AM ]

Nasir Kazmi
Press TV, Islamabad

The Pakistani government called a fresh session of the parliament on Thursday evening after the MPs affiliated to the ex-Prime Minister’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party requested the speaker of the national assembly for the acceptance of their resignations.

The PTI lawmakers did not appear before the speaker of the national assembly for the confirmation of their resignations which they tendered in April, following the ouster of former Prime Minister Imran Khan through a vote of no confidence.

While responding to a letter written by the top leadership of Khan’s party on December 15, the speaker of the parliament Raja Pervez Ashraf called PTI’s MPs to appear one by one in his chamber for the legal exercise under the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the country’s National Assembly.

Terming it as another U-turn of Imran Khan in his political career, the lawmakers belonging to the treasury benches criticized the policies of the PTI party chief, saying that agenda of the former prime minister is only to politically destabilize Pakistan.

While defending his party decision, the PTI leadership says that it will approach the country’s top court to seek acceptance of their mass resignations instead of the parliament and will also dissolve the assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa provinces.

Amid a political tug of war in the country, Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan announced last week that he would go to the Parliament on Thursday to confirm the resignations of his party’s lawmakers and dissolve the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assemblies on 23rd of December.

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