Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday announced that the party will seek time from National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf for the verification of their legislators’ resignations.
“A letter is being written to the speaker and he is being asked to provide a time when members of the assembly can come for the verification of resignations once again,” Fawad Ch said in a tweet.
He also added that before the Supreme Court it was remarked that PTI MNAs were not coming to the assembly but taking their salaries.
“Judges should verify the reports that come on the media. The reality is that this is another lie of the government. The salaries of the resigned members are suspended and no member is getting any salary,” the former minister maintained.
The PTI lawmakers had tendered their resignations en masse after the Imran Khan government was ousted through a no-confidence motion back in April.
The PTI has claimed resignations were accepted by former deputy speaker Qasim Suri, who was the chair after Asad Qaiser's resignation.
However, once Raja Pervez Ashraf was elected as the speaker, he decided to verify the resignations by interviewing lawmakers individually.
Later, the resignations of PTI members were de-sealed and Raja accepted only 11 of them.