26th Amendment: Imran decides to expel PTI MPs for 'supporting' govt

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan has finally decided to expel the legislators from the party who were found absent during the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment.

It was learnt that the PTI supremo has directed the expulsion of MPs and asked for issuance of their notification accordingly, barring Zain Qureshi.

Imran has sent a message to the party leadership to do the needful. He has emphasized that those who remained hidden on the day of passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment have no place in the party, as they had acted against the party line.

The party sources noted senators Zarqa Suhrawardy and Senator Faisal Saleem were absent on the day of the 26th Constitutional Amendment. Moreover, the party had also issued show cause notices to MNAs Aslam Ghuman, Riaz Fatyana, Zain Qureshi, Miqdad Ali Khan and Aurangzeb Kachhi.

The 26th Constitutional Amendment was passed last year in October and the PTI had issued show cause notices to its members of the National Assembly as well as two senators on suspicion of supporting the government on the amendment.

Meanwhile, PTI Additional Secretary General Firdous Shamim Naqvi, who had issued a notification of party MNA Sher Afzal Marwat’s expulsion from the party recently, has alleged that Marwat is spreading chaos in the party.

Speaking in a private TV channel programme, he said that the expelled MNA does not understand the matter and plays with dignity of whoever he wants to. “Marwat is spreading chaos in the party and does not stop even when the party stops him. The PTI parliamentary party will take the action to de-seat him,” he made it clear.

Reacting to Fawad Chaudhry slapping Shoaib Shaheen, earlier in the day, he charged that Fawad Chaudhry acted immorally outside the Adiala jail and insisted that what happened to Shoaib Shaheen was condemnable.