PTI suspends its MNA's membership for challenging resignation in IHC.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has suspended the party membership of MNA Abdul Shakoor Shad and served him a show-cause notice for challenging his resignation in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) "in violation of the party instructions". Shakoor Shad, the PTI lawmaker from Karachi's NA-246 constituency (Lyari), had challenged his resignation in the IHC, claiming that he did not resign from his National Assembly seat and that his resignation letter was written by a computer operator at PTI's head office and was signed by 123 members. Subsequently, the IHC on Friday suspended the notification that had declared the NA-246 seat from Lyari, Karachi, vacant. In the show-cause notice issued by...

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