ISLAMABAD – Sheikh Rasheed backed away after announcing to resign from hisseat in the National Assembly, lower house.
Speaking to a press conference on Tuesday, the Awami Muslim League (AML)leader told that he was determined to submit his resignation to theNational Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, but the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan stopped him from doing so.
“I was ready to resign but Imran Khan told me to wait for seven to eightdays,” he stated.
Sheikh Rasheed predicted that he doesn’t see the occurence of generalelections in 2018. He added that he knows there will be no by-poll ifresignations are made after January.
On January 17, Sheikh Rasheed had announced resignation from his seat inthe National Assembly during his address at the Mall Road rally staged bythe opposition parties combined.
Speaking to the Tahirul Qadri-hosted protest in Lahore, he said, “I resignfrom my National Assembly (Rawalpindi) seat.”
He had suggested that Imran Khan and other PTI lawmakers should also resignfrom the seat in order to create pressure on the ruling PML-N.