PTI resignations can’t be accepted overnight: speaker

Published August 23, 2014
NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq and PTI chairman Imran Khan.
NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq and PTI chairman Imran Khan.

ISLAMABAD: Each Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf member of parliament who has submitted their resignations should expect a letter and a telephone call from National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.

Talking to Dawn on Friday, the speaker said that their resignations would not be accepted in haste, rather due process would be allowed to take its course.

"I will first write separately to each PTI lawmaker to confirm their intention to resign,” Mr Sadiq said, adding, each MNA would also receive a phone call and would be asked to sign a pro forma declaring their intention to resign. Only then can the resignations be accepted, he said.

"The process will take time, possibly two weeks from the next working day," Mr Sadiq said.The speaker told Dawn that PTI MNAs came to the National Assembly Secretariat after Friday prayers, when he and the secretary were not present.

“However, I spoke to Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the phone and told him to drop the resignations with the NA secretary, who was urgently summoned to the Speaker’s Office specifically for this purpose,” he said.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd , 2014

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