Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan should come back to the parliament, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said Tuesday.
The PTI resigned in masse after Imran Khan was voted out in April, and since then, has not reverted to the National Assembly despite the Supreme Court asking it to do so.
“The people, who elected and sent them to parliament, are perceiving their actions,” Shujaat Hussain said while talking to senior journalists at an event in the federal capital, saying that if the PTI lawmakers keep enjoying the perks despite not being in parliament, it will be in no one’s interest.
Imran’s ouster has triggered persistent political turmoil in the country and most recently, a severe crisis hit Punjab after the governor, Baligh-ur-Rehman, removed the chief minister, Parvez Elahi, from the office, as the CM — a strong ally of Imran and Shujaat’s cousin — had said that he would dissolve the assembly in line with the PTI chief’s orders.
But the situation has since then remained stable as the Lahore High Court (LHC) took an undertaking from Elahi that he would not dissolve the assembly, although, it did not stop him from taking a vote of confidence.
To ensure that the assembly wasn’t dissolved, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had also earlier visited Shujaat’s residence in Lahore.