• PTI will contest by-elections on all vacated seats
• PTI Chairman Imran Khan will be the only candidate
• ECP de-notified 35 seats of the National Assembly

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan will contest by-elections on all the vacated seats of the National Assembly.

This was stated by PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry. He said PTI will contest the by-election on all vacant seats and Imran Khan will be the sole candidate.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday de-notified 35 more members of the National Assembly (MNAs) following the acceptance of their resignations by NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.

According to an ECP notification, 33 general and two reserved seats of the National Assembly were now deemed vacant.

The de-notified lawmakers include Murad Saeed, Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaiser, Pervaiz Khattak, Imran Khattak, Sheharyar Afridi, Ali Amin Khan, Noorul Haq Qadri, Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz, Ali Nawaz Awan, Asad Umar, Sadaqat Ali Khan, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, Mansoor Hayat Khan, Fawad Ahmed, Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel, Hammad Azhar, Shafqat Mahmood, Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Zartaj Gul, Faheem Khan, Saifur Rehman, Muhammad Alamgir Khan, Syed Ali Haider Zaidi, Aftab Hussain Siddiqui, Ataullah, Aftab Jehangir, Muhammad Aslam Khan, Muhammad Najeeb Haroon and Qasim Khan Suri.

Aliya Hamza Malik and Kanwal Shauzab, who were elected as PTI MNAs on reserved seats for women from Punjab, were also denotified.

The PTI had resigned from the National Assembly following the ouster of Imran Khan as prime minister in April last year.

NA speaker had accepted only 11 of the resignations and said the remaining lawmakers would be summoned individually for verification.

In October, Imran Khan won six out of seven National Assembly seats he contested in the bypolls. He won three seats each in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces and two in Karachi.

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