- Decision made in accordance with Imran Khan’s Directives: Gohar
- He says the party will hold peaceful protest outside the House of Parliament.
- Waqa’s Acram says that mna’s cards will participate and then boycott sessions.
Islamabad: After submitting the resignation of several parliamentary panels, Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) has now decided to boycott the National Assembly (NA) sessions, The news Reported Tuesday.
The move, in line with the PTI founder IMRAN KHAN’s directives, will see the party converging outside the House of Parliament for informal procedure.
The development comes on the basis of several disqualifications by PTI legislators, including the former opposition leader in the Na and Senate Omar Ayub and Shibli Faraz, after the courts sentenced them in cases relating to the 9 May riots – further exacerbates the previously ruling party’s existing legal evil.
With the announcement of the decision, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said the members of the parliamentary party fully support the decision, and they would now stage peaceful protest collections outside the House of Parliament.
“Our members were disqualified and we were not even allowed to speak. If we wanted to celebrate the day of independence, they also do not allow us to do so either,” Goohar complained while reflecting on PTI legislators’ disqualifications.
“We tried to present our demands in the assembly session in a democratic way, but we were not allowed to speak,” the PTI chairman added.
When contacted, PTI information secretary Waqa’s Akram confirmed the development. But when asked, the party’s legislators would completely stay away from the session, he explained that members would briefly attend each meeting and then come out in protest.
“Our members will keep the assembly outside of parliament,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Na-speaker Ayaz Sadiq has called on PTI-supported Sunni Intehad Council (SIC) members to consider their decision to resign from the standing committees in the House of House.
“I wish they should remain part of the standing committees in parliament,” said Sadiq, while chairing a meeting of the House Business Advisory Committee one day earlier.
