PTI Junaid Akbar resigning from the presidency of PAC

Islamabad:

President of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at the National Assembly Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) Junaid Akbar submitted her resignation on Wednesday. The decision was made following the orders of the party leadership.

Addressing the media, Akbar said that the implementation of party management guidelines is a collective responsibility for all members. He added that during his mandate as president of the CAP, he ensured the transparency of public spending and audit reports, and he always kept the public interest as absolute priority.

Meanwhile, the PTI secretary, Sheikh Waqas Akram, also resigned from the PAC and the Information Committee. “Following the instructions of our Imran Khan chief, I submitted my resignation this morning to the public accounts committee and the information committee,” he said on X.

The chief whip of PTI in the National Assembly, Malik Amir Dogar, confirmed that the members of the PTI in the permanent committees began to submit their resignations following the directives of the founder of the Imran Khan Party.

He mentioned that the PTI chief had assigned the positions to the members of the party in the parliamentary committees, and his instructions will be followed in the letter and the mind. “PTI’s parliamentary team is the decisions of the party leadership and will continue to follow the summit instructions,” he said.

Earlier, all the members of the PTI boycotted the PAC Wednesday session with the exception of PTI Mohin Aziz senator, who attended the meeting via the video link but who left halfway.

During the session, the committee secretary expressed his concern in the face of the absence of Akbar and urged the members to appoint another president. The members of the committee appointed Naveed Qamar to preside over the meeting and he took charge accordingly.

The member of the PTI panel in the PAC, Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel confirmed that PTI members should resign from all parliamentary committees.

One day earlier, Imran Khan asked the party not to participate in the next by -elections. He also advised parliamentary members to resign from all the committees and referred the case to the Party political committee for the final consultation.

The instructions were relayed after a meeting in Adiala prison with its sisters, Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, as well as the senior leaders of the Gohar Ali Khan party, Salman Akram Raja and the lawyer Ali Zafar.

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Later, addressing the media, Aleema said that Imran had reiterated his firm opposition to words and called all PTI legislators to resign parliamentary committees.

In accordance with the instructions of the founding president of the party, the PTI political committee, after large deliberations at a meeting, unanimously approved the boycott and resolved that the party legislators in the National Assembly would resign from members of their committee.

According to party sources, the meeting was summoned to trace PTI’s electoral strategy following recent disqualifications which created vacant positions for the national and provincial courses of the Assembly. The members were explicitly invited to give their opinion on the question of whether the party should challenge the elections.

The initiates revealed that most of the members had advised to participate, citing the dominant political climate and compromised the conditions for a fair competition.

The boycott proposal was approved unanimously, with senior leaders, notably Sanaullah Masti Khel, Barrister Gohar, Sheikh Waqas Akram and Amir Dogar, strongly supporting this decision, appeal to him in the management of Imran Khan.