Speaker accepted 35 more resignations of PTI lawmakers

WEB DESK

The National Assembly (NA) Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Friday approved the resignations of another 35 lawmakers of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Resignations of Maleeka Ali Bokhari, Andaleeb Abbas, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Syed Fakhr Imam and others have been accepted.

The accepted resignations include four women reserved seats and now the strength of PTI in National Assembly has been reduced by 70 seats

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) also de-notified 35 members of PTI, after National Assembly Secretariat had sent the list of resigned members to the election body.

The move came forward amid threats from the PTI to return to parliament only to foil a vote of confidence, which the party hoped President Dr Arif Alvi would seek from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Below are the PTI members whose resignations have been approved in the fresh episode.

1	Dr. Haider Ali Khan	NA-3
2	Mr. Saleem Rehman	NA-3
3	Sahibzada Sibghatullah	NA-5
4	Mr. Mehboob Shah NA-6	NA-6
5	Mr. Muhammad Bashir Khan	NA-7
6	Mr. Junaid Akbar	NA-8
7	Mr. Sher Akbar Khan	NA-9
8	Mr. Ali Khan Jadoon	NA-16
9	Engr Usman Khan Tarakai	NA-19
10	Mr. Mujahid Ali	NA-20
11	Mr. Arbab Amir Ayub	NA-28
12	Mr. Sher Ali Arbab	NA-30
13	Mr. Shahid Ahmed	NA-34
14	Mr. Gul Dad Khan	NA-40
15	Mr. Sajid Khan	NA-42
16	Mr. Mohammad Iqbal Khan	NA-44
17	Mr. Aamer Mehmood Kiani	NA-61
18	Syed Faiz ul Hassan	NA-70
19	Ch. Shoukat Ali Bhab	NA-87
20	Mr. Umar Aslam Khan	NA-93
21	Mr. Amjad Ali Khan	NA-96
22	Mr. Khurram Shahzad	NA-107
23	Mr Faizullah	NA-109
24	Malik Karamat Ali Khokhar	NA-135
25	Syed Fakhar Imam	NA-150
26	Mr. Zahoor Hussain Qureshi	NA-152
27	Mr. Ibraheem Khan	NA-158
28	Mr. Tahir Iqbal	NA-164
29	Mr. Aurangzeb Khan Khichi	NA-165
30	Makhdoom Khusro BakhBar	NA-177
31	Mr. Abdul Majeed Khan	NA-187
32	Ms.Andaleeb Abbas	RS-Women
33	Ms. Asma Qadeer	RS-Women
34	Ms. Maleeka Ali Bokhari	RS-Women
35	Ms.Munawara Bibi Baloch	RS-Women

Earlier, NA speaker on Tuesday suddenly accepted long-awaited resignations of PTI members.

The previous phase of approved resignations included names of Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Shafqat Mahmood, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and others.

Following the move, a notification to de-seat the lawmakers who had resigned was also issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

PTI members headed towards parliament

After NA speaker’s acceptance of another 35 resignations of PTI members, they headed on foot towards the parliament.

They demanded NA speaker to accept all resignations in one go, and not in phases.

On the arrival of PTI lawmakers, the main gate of the parliament house was immediately closed for entry.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi outside the parliament said that they have come to resign, the resignations of other members must be accepted right now.

While, PTI Speaker Asad Qaiser also had arguments with the security guards at the gate; after he repeatedly asked them to allow entry.