Summary MQM submitted an application for the withdrawal of its mass resignations.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – National Assembly (NA) meeting will be held on Friday and nine elected members of the National Assembly (NA) including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) leader and winner of NA-122 constituency Sardar Ayaz Sadiq will be taking oath, Dunya News reported. Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will be returning to the assembly after 85 days since it first handed in its resignations on the 12th of August and will take part in the NA proceedings. MQM has decided to take back resignations from Sindh Assembly as well.
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According to the details, PML-N has nominated Ayaz Sadiq to contest NA Speaker election while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) nominated Shafqat Mehmood.
Meanwhile, MQM submitted an application for the withdrawal of its mass resignations to the chamber of the current Speaker, after successful negotiations with the government. Members of NA Sheikh Salah-ud-Din and Sajjad Ahmed submitted an application for withdrawal of 22 out of 24 of its parliamentarians’ resignation letters. Two MQM parliamentarians Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Asif Hussnain could not submit their application as they were out of the country.
After withdrawing its resignations, it has yet to be seen whom MQM nominates to contest the NA Speaker election.
MQM parliamentarians handed in their resignation in protest against Karachi operation and reservations over minus-Altaf formula. MQM chief Altaf Hussain had endorsed the decision of resigning from Senate, National Assembly and Sindh Assembly. He said that no one was listening to his party members’ genuine grievances. The MQM has 24 seats in the National Assembly, 51 seats in the Sindh Assembly and eight seats in the Senate.
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MQM had earlier expressed its reservations to the US as well and reached out to the Obama administration to impress upon the Pakistani leadership particularly security forces not to target its members in Karachi in the name of counter-terrorism operations.
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Federal government had then formed a committee to address Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) reservations regarding resignations from National Assembly.
