Lahore High Court suspends Raja Pervaiz Ashraf ruling to accept resignations of 43 PTI MNAs

On Wednesday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) came into action to suspend the ruling of National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf of accepting the resignations of 43 PTI members. After the verdict of LHC, the by-elections announced in the 43 constituencies are put on a hold.

During the hearing on February 08, 2023, Justice Shahid Karim pronounced the verdict on a petition filed by PTI member Riaz Fatyana. The petition was filed against the decision of the Speaker National Assembly to accept resignations and the de-notification orders released by the Election Commission of Pakistan.

PTI member Ali Zafar maintained the stance in Lahore High Court that MNAs of PTI withdrew their resignations before the speaker accepted them. He added that if the resignations were retracted, they cannot be accepted by the speaker. Ali pointed out that acceptance of resignations was against the law. He believed that Raja Pervaiz Ashraf took political revenge by accepting the resignations. Ali Zafar requested the court to nullify and void the orders of NA’s speaker.

LHC suspended the decision by Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to accept the resignations of the following PTI members:

1. Muhammad Riaz Khan Fatyana
2. Nasrullah Khan Dreshak
3. Tahir Sadiq
4. Zulfiqar Ali Khan
5. Haji Imtiaz Chowdry
6. Malik Muhammad Ehsan Ullah Tiwana
7. Raza Nasrullah
8. Muhammad Mehboob Sultan
9. Muhammad Ameer Sultan
10. Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal
11. Mian Muhammad Shafiq
12. Muhammad Farooq Azam Malik
13. Javed Iqbal Warakh
14. Muhammad Shabbir Ali Qureshi
15. Niaz Ahmed
16. Khwaja Sheraz Mehmood
17. Sardar Mohammad Khan LEghari
18. Rukhsana Naveed
19. Seemin Bukhari
20. Munaza Hassan
21. Nusrat Wahid
22. Fauzia Behram
23. Tashfeen Safdar
24. Lal Chand
25. Jai Parkash
26. Jamshed Thomas
27. Malik Anwar Taj
28. Mohammad Yaqoob Sheikh
29. Ghazala Saifi
30. Syma Nadeem
31. Naureen Farooque Khan
32. Uzma Riaz
33. Shaheen Niaz Saifullah
34. Gul Zafar Khan
35. Jawad Hussain
36. Rahat Amanullah Bhatti
37. Sobia Kamal Khan
38. Nausheed Hamid
39. Rubina Jamil
40. Nafeesa Inayatullah Khattak
41. Sajida Zulfiqar
42. Zile Huma
43. Shunila Ruth

The court issued notifications to the federal government and election commission to submit their responses by the next hearing.