NA Speaker summons PTI MNAs to verify resignations

Islamabad: Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has summoned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNAs for verification of their resignations from Assembly seats. 

The National Assembly Secretariat on Monday sent letters to the PTI MNAs in this regard in pursuance of Paragraph (b) of Sub Rule (2) of rule 43 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly, 2007.

According to the NA Secretariat, 131 PTI members, who had tendered resignations, were invited individually for verification of their resignations.

The verification process would start on June 6 and continue till June 10.

Every MNA would get five minutes to confirm that their resignations were voluntary and genuine.