The 26 Punjab Assembly lawmakers from the PTI who were suspended by the provincial assembly speaker on June 27 have been formally allowed to cast their votes in the upcoming Senate elections.
Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan suspended these MPAs for creating "disruption, ruckus and chanting indecent slogans" during the speech of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz in the houseunder rule 210 (3) of the Rules of Procedure, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, 1997.
The speaker on Tuesday issued a press release clarifying that members suspended under Rule 210 of the Rules of Procedure 1997 would be entitled to vote in the said election. "An office memorandum in this regard is being issued," it said. It also announced that the voting for Senate elections will be held on July 21, 2025 in the Punjab Assembly.
The speaker suspended Malik Fahad Masood (PP-13), Tanveer Aslam (PP-19), Syed Riffat Mehmood (PP-24) Yasir Mehmood Qureshi (PP-25), Kaleem Ullah Khan (PP-60), Muhammad Ansar Iqbal (PP-73), Ali Asif (PP-75), Zulifqar Ali (PP-76), Ahmad Mujtaba Chaudhary (PP-99) and Shahid Javed (PP-115).
Muhammad Ismael (PP-116), Khayal Ahmad (PP-118), Shahbaz Ahmad (PP-130), Tayyab Rashid (PP-141), Imtiaz Mehmood (PP-155), Ali Imtiaz (PP-156), Rashid Tufail (PP-175), Rai Muhmmad Murtaza Iqbal (PP-203), Khalid Zubair Nisar (PP-231), Ch Muhamad Ejaz Shafi (PP-258), Samia Kanwal (PP-260), Muhammad Naeem (PP-263), Sajjad Ahmad (PP-265), Rana Aourang Zaib (PP-276), Shuaib Ameer (PP-281) and Usama Asghar Ali Gujjar (PP-282) were also among those suspended on June 27.
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