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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday filed a petition before the Supreme Court seeking lifetime disqualification of its dissident Members of National Assembly (MNAs).
The petition drawn by Dr. Babar Awan and filed by Advocate-on-Record (AOR) Ahmed Nawaz Chaudhry has been filed under Article 184(3) of the Constitution.
It named the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Speaker National Assembly, Secretary Ministry of Law, and the Cabinet Secretary as respondents in the case.
The petition prayed that the dissident PTI members should be disqualified for a lifetime.
“If any member wanted to leave the party must resign as members of the National Assembly first instead of committing defection as provided in Article 63-A of the Constitution by changing his loyalty in favor of another political party,” the petition added.
The petition stated that shifting loyalties meant that the individual was no longer Sadiq and Amin (truthful and honest).
It is pertinent to mention here that, more than 20 deviant PTI lawmakers did not participate in the voting on the no-trust motion against Imran Khan last Sunday, that is why law experts are of the view that the defection clause of the constitution is not applied on them.
The Joint opposition had deliberately kept the dissident MNAs away from voting to save them from any legal action of PTI. They only played the role of standby voters in the process of no-trust motion.