Shah Mahmood Qureshi declared PTI’s parliamentary group leader in NA

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi has replaced Imran Khan as the party’s parliamentary group leader in the House, The News reported. PTI Chairman Khan, who has been stripped of the parliament’s membership following his disqualification, cannot enter the House.
Sources within the National Assembly (NA) secretariat said that Khan’s membership had been cancelled by the competent authority from the seat that provided his entry to the House.
Meanwhile, NA Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf has received a letter from Qureshi for an appointment for putting across PTI’s request for acceptance of all resignations and it would be responded in due course after careful consideration.  
Sources said that in the absence of any provision for accepting en bloc resignations, permission for such action couldn’t be granted in the House.
Ashraf had already written to the members, whose resignations were submitted on an identical text. They were asked to appear before the speaker individually for the verification of their resignation but none of them turned up. However, the PTI MNAs did not bother to formally reply to the communication.