An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi issued a lifetime arrest warrant for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Arsalan Taj Hussain and declared him 'fugitive' in a treason case registered against him and other party leaders, ARY News reported on Monday.
The PTI spokesperson said that the police raided the houses of the party leaders, including Khurram Sher Zaman, Raja Azhar and PTI Secretary General Arsalan Taj Hussain.
The PTI lawmakers had resigned from the lower house of the parliament after PTI chief Imran Khan's ouster in April 2022 but the National Assembly Speaker had accepted only 11 of the resignations then.
A notification posted on his Twitter handle read that the Provincial Assembly of Punjab and the Cabinet stand dissolved under Article 112(1) of the Constitution of Pakistan. It calls for the appointment of a caretaker Chief Minister in consultation with the outgoing Chief Minister and the Le
On Thursday, Punjab CM Parvez Elahi signed the summary for the dissolution of the provincial assembly. "I Parvez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab, hereby advise you to dissolve the provincial assembly," he said in a brief one-line advice addressed to Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman, as quoted
Imran Khan said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf members were being told that he had no political future and committed to removing all these barriers with the help of his supporters.
PTI has decided to take up the issue at the apex court where an application will be moved next week as the resignations of PTI lawmakers of the National Assembly have not been accepted by the speaker.
Raja Parvaiz Ashraf stressed that the process of verification of resignations cannot be conducted in a proper manner if the members of the National Assembly come in a group.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has summoned all PTI lawmakers to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) House in Islamabad on December 28 to chalk out a strategy for their resignations, according to a report in Geo News.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zardari said that the PTI Members of the National Assembly who had previously submitted their resignations were still earning their salaries.