*ISLAMABAD: Punjab Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi on Wednesday sent areference against 26 dissident Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPAs to theElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP), seeking their lifetimedisqualification for violating party discipline. *
PTI chief whip, on behalf of former prime minister Imran Khan, handed overthe reference to Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Thedisqualification reference against the PTI members has been moved underArticle-63 of the Constitution.
The deviant members named in the reference include Abdul Aleem Khan, RajaSageer, Ghulam Rasool Saeed, Saeed Akbar, Faisal Hayat, Mehar Aslam, KhalidMehmood, Nazeer Chohan, Nauman Langrial, Ameen Zulkurnain, Muhammad Salman,Zawar Hussian, Nazeer Ahmed, Fida Hussain, Ayesha Nawaz, Sajida Yusuf,Muhammad Tahir, Uzma Kardar, Sibtain Raza and others.
The reference will however not be applicable on independent candidatesChaudhry Nisar, Ahmed Ali, Jugnu Mohsin, Bilal Asghar Warraich, RajaSagheer and others.
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It is pertinent to mention here that Hamza Shehbaz was elected ChiefMinister Punjab link during a PunjabAssembly session that saw unprecedented violence resulting in attacks onSpeaker Parvez Elahi and Deputy Speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari.
Dissident lawmakers of the PTI, who were part of Jahangir Tareen and AleemKhan groups, played a key part in the election of the PML-N leader.
