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PTI Members To Resign en Masse
Islamabad, April 11 : Pakistan’s former Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday said that PTI Parliamentary Committee have decided to resign from the National Assembly. Chaudhry tweeted, “Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Parliamentary Committee has decided to resign from the National Assembly.” “Today, all members of the Assembly are submitting their resignations to the Speaker. We will fight for freedom,” he said. Hammad Azhar, Farrukh Habib, Ali Zaidi, Murad Saeed, Shireen Mazari, Shafqat Mahmood, Ali Amin Gandapur, Ali Mohammad Khan’s have so far submitted their resignations. Imran Khan has also said that they would not sit in the Assembly under any circumstances, according to a report by Pakistani media. Sources privy to the matter quoted Khan as saying: “We will not sit in this Assembly under any circumstances.” He said that PTI will not sit in the Assembly with the “people who have robbed Pakistan” and who have been “imported by foreign forces”, Geo News reported. “We have made this decision to keep the institutions under pressure who want this government to run the country (…) we will not let them continue.”