ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has de-seated 25 dissident lawmakers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Punjab Assembly.
The ECP made the unanimous decision of de-seating the PTI dissents on Friday while approving the reference sent by the Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi after the lawmakers had, in defiance to the party’s directives, voted for Hamza Shahbaz of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab Chief Minister’s Election on April 16.
The following are PTI MPAs who have been de-seated;
- Raja Sagheer Ahmed
- Malik Ghulam Rasool Sangha
- Saeed Akbar Khan
- Muhammad Ajmal
- Aleem Khan
- Nazeer Chohan
- Mohammad Ameen Zulqarnain
- Noman Langrial
- Mohammad Salman
- Zawar Warraich
- Nazeer Ahmed Khan
- Fida Hussain
- Zahra Batool
- Mohammad Tahir
- Ayesha Nawaz
- Sajida Yousuf
- Haroon Imran Gill
- Uzma Kardar
- Malik Asad Ali
- Ijaz Masih
- Sibtain Raza
- Mohsin Ata Khan Khosa
- Mian Khalid Mehmood
- Mehr Mohammad Aslam
- Faisal Hayat
Five of the above-mentioned PTI defectors hail from Aleem Khan’s group, 16 from Jahangir Tareen’s group while four are affiliated with Asad Khokhar’s group.
