Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has announced to contest by-polls from all nine seats, vacated after the NA speaker accepted PTI MNAs’ resignation.
In a meeting with senior journalists on Friday, former premier has announced to contest elections from all nine constituencies himself.
The PTI Chairman said that elections would be held this year, government parties want to single him out, he said in the meeting.
‘Would fight against the rulers at every platform,” he added. The government alliance’s plans to disqualify him would never be completed, he said.
The government accepted the resignations of 11 PTI MNAs including Shireen Mazari, Ali Muhammad Khan, Ijaz Shah, Farrukh Habib, Shandana Gulzar, Fazal Muhammad, Fakhar Zaman, Abdul Shakoor Shad, Jameel Ahmed and Akram Cheema.
According to the ECP schedule, the by-polls on the nine National Assembly seats would be contested on September 25.