PTI suspends KPK lawmaker Javed Nasim

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has suspended party membership of Javed Nasim, a member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, for violating party’s policy.

A show-cause notice has also been issued to Mr Nasim who had proposed a PPP candidate for Senate election.

Imran Khan has sent a notification of his suspension to Speaker KPK Assembly and the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Later on, talking to media the lawmaker said he had done nothing illegal and nobody had the right to deprive him of assembly membership.

He claimed that a forward block had already been created in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.