ISLAMABAD: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Junaid Akbar has resigned from his post, confirming that the decision was taken on the instructions of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and the party’s political committee.
Speaking to media, Junaid Akbar, who is a member of national assembly from PTI, said he had sent his resignation to the party’s chief whip Malik Aamir Dogar.
Alongside his resignation, five other PTI lawmakers — Zar Muhammad Khan, Fazal Muhammad Khan, Ali Asghar Khan, Mohammad Iqbal Afridi and Maulana Naseem Ali Shah — also stepped down from their memberships of National Assembly standing committees.
The resignations comes a day after Imran Khan, currently imprisoned in Adiala jail, instructed PTI leaders not to contest upcoming by-elections and to withdraw from all parliamentary committees.
Following her meeting with the former prime minister in jail, Khan’s sister Aleema Khan told reporters that the PTI founder had directed the party to distance itself from the by-polls, arguing that contesting them would lend legitimacy to what he called a flawed electoral process.
She said that the PTI founder’s clear stance was not to legitimise the by-elections, but if anyone in the party held a different view, it would be taken into consideration.