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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insad (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry has announced that his party has raised objections over the nomination papers of PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister and will resign if they are not addressed.
The announcement comes a day after Imran Khan was ousted from power as prime minister after a successful no-confidence move in the National Assembly.
Talking to the media, Chaudhry said a meeting of the PTI’s central core executive committee (CEC) was held in Bani Gala with chairman Imran Khan where situation was discussed.
He said the CEC recommended that the PTI should resign from the assemblies starting with the National Assembly. “If our objections on Shehbaz Sharif’s nomination papers are not addressed then we will resign tomorrow,” he said.
Regarding the PTI’s decision to nominate its Shah Mahmood Qureshi for the prime minister’s position, Chaudhry said that contesting the election provided a way to challenge Shehbaz’s nomination papers.
He said it was a great injustice that Shehbaz would be contesting the election for the prime minister on the same day he was supposed to be indicted in a money laundering case. “What can be more insulting for Pakistan that a foreign imported government is imposed and Shehbaz will lead,” he complained.
Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed also reaffirmed to resign from the National Assembly. “It has been decided that we can’t be involved with these thieves and dacoits in the assembly. Everyone decided unanimously that we are submit mass resignations from NA,” he said. “All members will resign.”