Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser on Thursday declared that the resignations of two PML-N lawmakers, sent to the NA Secretariat on government letterheads earlier this month, “could not be verified” and that no further action on them was required.
“Both members have disowned their resignations received by National Assembly Secretariat on Dec 14 and both the members also called the resignations fake,” the NA Secretariat said in a tweet.
The ruling comes a day after the two PML-N members of the National Assembly (MNAs) Muhammad Sajjad from Mansehra and Murtaza Javed Abbasi from Abbottabad appeared before the NA speaker after letters were issued to them by the assembly secretariat, asking them to appear before the speaker for ‘verification’ of their resignations. Earlier this month, a controversy broke out when the letters were issued to them, with the MNAs denying having sent the resignations. The PML-N too termed the resignations “fake” and asked the NA speaker to conduct an inquiry into the matter.
Later in the month, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz directed the two lawmakers to go to the National Assembly speaker and verify their resignations even if they were sent “by mistake”.
“Let me tell you one thing, regardless of whether they were sent by mistake, if the NA speaker asks you to verify the letters then say here are your resignations, now accept them,” she had said, while addressing a workers’ convention in Sukkur.
Source: dawn.com
Monday, April 20, 2026
