Islamabad:
Opposition legislators Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) left the presidency of several permanent committees of the National Assembly on Wednesday, implementing the directives of the PTI management, party officials said.
Addressing the media, the president of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Junaid Akbar, confirmed that he had resigned following the directives of the party leadership. “The implementation of party leadership directives is a collective responsibility for all members,” he said.
PTI information secretary, Sheikh Waqas Akram, also resigned from the CAP 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 had started to submit their resignations following the directives of the founder of the Imran Khan Party.
He mentioned that the PTI chief had assigned the Party members in the parliamentary committees, and his instructions would 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.”
In addition, the leaders of PTI Faisal Amin and Ali Asghar submitted their resignations from their positions in the permanent committees of the National Assembly. Their official resignations were submitted to the Secretariat of the National Assembly.
ASGHAR has left the permanent committees of the cabinet secretariat, privatization, planning and development, while Min has resigned permanent committees on economic affairs and national food security.
Currently, PTI has the representation in 29 permanent committees and its members president of these committees. The member of the PTI panel in the PAC, Sanaullah Mastikhel, confirmed that members of the PTI should resign from all parliamentary committees.
Earlier, all the members of the PTI boycotted the PAC Wednesday session, with the exception of the Senator of PTI Mohsin Aziz, who attended the meeting via the video link but left halfway to protest. During the session, the committee secretary expressed his concern in the face of the absence of Akbar.
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.
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 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.
