ISLAMABAD, March 15: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA from Lahore Khawaja Saad Rafiq has not submitted the reply of the party show-cause notice despite expiry of the deadline on Tuesday.

PML-N Secretary-General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra told Dawn that Mr Rafiq was expected to submit the reply on Tuesday (today), but so far he (Mr Jhagra) had not received it.

When asked as to what action the party would take against Mr Rafiq for not submitting the reply, Mr Jhagra said the MNA still had the time to submit reply and the party would wait for it. He said it was true that the MNA was given a seven-day deadline but it was not a martial law order. “After we all are politicians and we should accommodate each other,” Mr Jhagra said.

It may be recalled that Mr Jhagra had issued the show-cause notice to Khwaja Saad Rafiq on March 7 on charges of issuing statements against the top party leadership and interfering in the party’s organizational matters. He was asked to submit the reply to the charges levelled against him in the notice within a period of seven days.

Mr Rafiq was issued the notice when he levelled allegations against the party’s acting parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan accusing him of working against the party’s interests.