IHC suspends acceptance of PTI MNA's resignation.

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday suspended the notification regarding the acceptance of resignation of PTI's Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Abdul Shakoor Shad and instructed him to attend the assembly session. Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petition filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker against acceptance of his resignation by the NA speaker as MNA. The court issued a notice to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and sought its comments in two weeks.

The petitioner's lawyer adopted the stance that his client had not tendered resignation from the NA membership. A computer operator had typed 123 resignations on the party letter head, and the NA speaker accepted only 11 of them. The IHC suspended an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notification for the by-election in the National Assembly constituency of NA-246 in Karachi.

Abdul Shakoor Shad announced to rescind his resignation, which he said was only meant to express solidarity with PTI Chief Imran Khan in a petition filed before the IHC. The petition stated that 123 resignations were typed by a computer operator and the PTI MNAs were made to sign them in the name of 'party discipline', to show solidarity with Imran Khan and for political purposes. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petition on Friday and sent notices to ECP and the National Assembly...