Fawad describes NA speaker's move as attempt to prevent removal of Raja Riaz.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday described the move of the National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf to accept resignations of PTI lawmakers as attempts to save leader of opposition Raja Riaz.

Earlier in the day, the speaker approved the resignations of 43 more PTI legislators, taking the tally to 124 as he has already accepted 81 resignations, which were submitted in April last following the ouster of Imran Khan as prime minister through no-confidence vote.

The Imran Khan-led party wanted to return to the assembly to replace Raja Riaz, a dissident PTI leader, as opposition leader and put Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to test through no-confidence vote.

Taking to Twitter, the former information minister said 40 per cent of NA seats were...