PTI's Punjab Assembly MPAs submit resignations

E-Paper | May 04, 2026

LAHORE: Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) member Mehmoodur Rashid and 28 other party members handed their resignations from the house in the Punjab Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday.

However, two PTI MPAs from Punjab, Nighat Inqiar and Jahanzaib Kichi, have not submitted their resignations and Rashid said the two lawmakers were "reluctant" to resign from the house.

Addressing media representatives in Lahore, Rashid said he and his party colleagues were resigning from the house as the current government had come to power in a 'rigged' election.

He further said that the federal and provincial governments had failed to deliver on their promises and PTI MPAs from Punjab were resigning as per party policy.

The latest round of resignations from PTI comes as the party has been holding protests and sit-ins in Islamabad against alleged rigging in the May 2013 general elections. Imran Khan's party has demanded Nawaz Sharif's resignation from prime ministership and has so far been unwilling to back down.

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Aug 27, 2014 02:51pm

*Imran Khan's party has demanded Nawaz Sharif's resignation from prime ministership and has so far been unwilling to back down*

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New Pakistan

Aug 27, 2014 03:27pm

When is IK and Khattak n co going to resign?

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Z khan

Aug 27, 2014 04:53pm

Now plz resign from KPK govt as well and let other people work for Pakistan.

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Muhammad Khan

Aug 27, 2014 04:53pm

Nighat Intisar is wife of Intisar Hussain Bhatti who contested elections on the ticket of PML and PPP alternatively in order to ensure success. That is why he remained part of the provincial assembly almost all the time during the period from 88 to 99. In 2002 elections he could have contested the election on the ticket of PML Q had he not disqualified due to lack of bachelor's degree. Nisar is the typical example of such people who do not have any political vision except thrust for power. Such people have exposed the PTI's hollow rant of bringing change in the politics through people having modern thinking and concept and rejecting the conventional politics of local feuds and lords. This is why power hungry Nighat Intisar has not rendered her resignation.

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ishfaq

Aug 27, 2014 08:18pm

I want to ask Imran what he has done in last 18 months in KPK. .. What a good change...

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Ganga Din

Aug 27, 2014 09:43pm

Good riddance. Go to rigging free KPK and start helping IDP's. Do some work for a change.

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