LAHORE: Invoking jurisdiction of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) urged the court to declare National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf decision illegal who accepted 70 MNAs’ resignations without providing hearing opportunity in the matter.
Making Speaker NA, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), and others as respondents in the matter the PTI MNAs, including Fawad Chaudhry, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pervaiz Khattak and others challenged the acceptance of their resignations as MNAs by NA speaker.
In the petitions, the former lawmakers maintained that without hearing their viewpoint, the NA speaker accepted resignations.
Urging the LHC to nullify the decision of speaker Raja Pervaiz Asharaf the petitioner prayed the court to issue directives to the Election Commission of Pakistan to de-notifying order in this regard. “Therefore, it is prayed to the court to declare the acceptance of PTI lawmakers’ resignations null and void,” the petition read.
Earlier in the day, the LHC sought replies from National Assembly (NA) Speaker Raja Parvez Ashraf and other respondents in a case pertaining to the acceptance of 43 PTI MNAs’ resignations. Justice Shahid Kareem took up the petition filed by 43 PTI leaders, including Riaz Fatyana, against the NA speaker’s move for accepting their resignations without due process. The LHC has directed the NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to submit his reply till March 07 in the case.
Earlier, the Lahore High Court (LHC) suspended the Election Commission of Pakistan’s notification that de-notified 43 MNAs of the PTI.
