NA Speaker accepts resignations of 35 PTI MNAs.

National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Tuesday accepted 35 resignations tendered by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) National Assembly members.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) subsequently de-notified the MNAs over the acceptance of the resignations.

The PTI MNAs include Pervez Khattak, Hammad Azhar, Fawad Chaudhry, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Qaisar, Murad Saeed, Shafqat Mehmood, Sheheryar Afridi, Zartaj Gul, Alamgir Khan, Noor ul Haq Qadri, Sadaqat Ali Abbasi, Ali Nawaz Awan, Ali Amin Gandapur, and others. Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed s resignation has also been accepted.

Earlier, the PTI and the ruling coalition in the NA had been at daggers drawn to each other over the Speaker s delay in acceptance of resignations by the PTI MNAs.

It is pertinent to mention here that the PTI had...