ISLAMABAD    -    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Thursday filed the amended appeal in the Supreme Court against the Is­lamabad High Court (IHC) judgment regarding the acceptance of resigna­tion of PTI lawmakers.

PTI secretary general Asad Umar had filed the appeal against the IHC verdict in SC on September 13 and made National Assembly speaker, Election Commission of Pakistan, Cabinet Division secretary, and Na­tional Assembly secretary as respon­dents. However, the Registrar Office on September 14 had returned the appeal, having no valid grounds.

IHC chief justice had turned down the PTI petition on September 6, challenging the phase-wise accep­tance of resignations of its Members of National Assembly (MNAs) and declared that the then NA deputy speaker Qasim Suri had issued noti­fication of acceptance of the resigna­tion “in violation of the Constitution”.

The petition claims that the IHC disregarded the material facts of the case and failed to adhere to the principle that each case has to be de­cided on its own peculiar facts.

The petitioner argued that no law permits the successor office holder i.e. the speaker of the National As­sembly to alter, modify, review or revise the order of the predecessor with regard to the acceptance of the resignations that have already ac­cepted and notified by his prede­cessor in office. The petitioner con­tended that the impugned actions/inactions are illegal, perverse and tantamount to abuse of law, authori­ty as well as the infringement of con­stitutional and fundamental rights of the petitioner, ensured under the Constitution of Pakistan.

He continued that the respondents have failed to discharge their duties as per exigencies of their statutory responsibilities and acted in excess of their lawful authority and in vio­lation of law and mandate.

The PTI further added that the NA speaker, in the present circum­stances, has no reason to doubt the geniuses and voluntary submission of the resignation.