PTI MNAs to appear before NA speaker next week for verification of resignations: sources

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers have determined to look before National Assembly Speaker Raja Parvez Ashraf for the verification of their resignations, Geo News reported  Sunday citing sources. 

As per the sources, the members of the National Assembly (MNAs) can either seem before the speaker on Wed or weekday. The date are going to be finalised by party Chairman Imran Khan throughout the consultatory meeting these days, aforesaid the sources. 

The decision was created by PTI once the members failed to get a response to the letter they wrote to the sodium speaker, aforesaid the sources. They further that party Vice-Chairman monarch Mahmood Qureshi wrote a letter to Ashraf a number of days agone. 

The sources additional declared that the speaker of the National Assembly has not nevertheless given time to substantiate the resignations of the lawmakers. 

PTI seeks time 

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry, on December fifteen, proclaimed that the party are going to be seeking time from the National Assembly speaker for the verification of their MPs' resignations.

“A letter is being written to the speaker and he's being asked to produce a time once members of the assembly will come back for the verification of resignations once more,” tweeted Fawad. He further that they're seeking time for the verification thus new polls may be prevailed the vacated seats.

The former info minister aforesaid that within the Supreme Court it had been remarked that PTI MNAs weren't coming back to the assembly however taking their salaries.

“Judges ought to verify the reports that come back on the media. the fact is that this can be another lie of the govt. The salaries of the resigned members ar suspended and no member is obtaining any regular payment,” aforesaid Fawad.

Fawad's tweet comes once Supreme Court's Justice Mansoor Ali monarch, whereas hearing PTI plea on NAB amendments, determined that though the PTI lawmakers weren't getting to the National Assembly, they were receiving their salaries.

He had conjointly determined that the capital of Pakistan state supreme court had asked the PTI legislators to look before the sodium speaker.

MNAs messages

Ashraf, last week, aforesaid that PTI lawmakers convey messages to him to not settle for their resignations. 

The speaker aforesaid that such things need a great deal of thought method, adding that he won't settle for the resignations till he's glad.

"There could be a method to simply accept resignations with some rules and laws," he said. "If a lawgiver offers a press release concerning his resignation and that i get to grasp that he has done it stressed then i will be able to not settle for it."

The resignations

The PTI lawmakers had tendered their resignations en bloc once the Imran Khan government was ousted through a no-confidence motion back in Gregorian calendar month.

The PTI has claimed resignations were accepted by former deputy speaker Qasim Suri in absence of the speaker once Asad Qaiser's resignation.

However, once Raja Pervez Ashraf was electoral because the speaker, he determined to verify the resignations by interviewing lawmakers one by one.

Later, the resignations of PTI members were de-sealed and Raja accepted solely eleven of them.